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AKnews reports that Kurdistan's Minister of Finance and Economy says he cannot afford to increase the housing grant. Bayiz Talabani [Bayiz Saeed Mohammad Talabani] (pictured) attended a budget meeting on Thursday to answer reports of parliamentary committees. Talabani said: "Now 18,000 staff and civil servants get paid from the Kurdistan Regional Government." It was suggested […]
The deputy governor of the Iraqi Central Bank (ICB), Muzher Mohammed Saleh, has set a deadline for all banks in Iraq to increase their capital to at least 250bn IQD ($215m). He said: "We asked all banks in Iraq to increase their capital this month to strengthen their dealings and give more loans." According to the report […]
Iraq's Commission on Integrity has revealed details of fraudulent credit operations in the Ministry of Defense's branch of Rafidain Bank, noting that the director of the bank granted illegal loans in excess of "150 billion Iraqi dinars" ($129 million). The commission said that the director of the bank allowed conditions for the granting of loans […]
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Reuters reports that Iraq’s central bank, struggling to stem an illicit tide of dollars into sanctions-bound Iran and Syria, has had some success in steadying its own dinar by pumping dollars to Iraqis through two state-run banks. Late last month the central bank allowed U.S. dollars to be sold at a fixed rate through two […]
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The chief executive of the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX), Taha Abdulsalam, believes secondary listings for local companies on bourses in London and New York would eventually attract extra liquidity and boost trade. "That is the long-term strategy. It's not going to happen overnight, but the plan is to aim to develop the same standard of […]
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The Central Bank of Iraq (ICB) said on Monday that it has begun to pay the small depositors in Warka Ahli Bank for Investment, reports AKnews. Following a financial crisis, the bank was placed under ‘guardianship’ in March. The Deputy governor of the bank, Muzher Mohammed Saleh said: "There is payment for small depositors in […]
Rudaw reports that Kurdish members of the Iraqi Parliament’s Finance Committee have denied that there is currently any proposed law regarding the removal of zeros from the Iraqi banknotes. Ahmad Faizulla, an MP from the Kurdistan alliance in the Iraqi parliament and member of the finance committee, dismissed claims that their committee has prepared and […]
In Iraq, where barely anyone has a bank account, the trade in foreign currencies is largely unlicensed. Now money traders are smuggling US dollars to sanctioned Syria and Iran. And the Iraqi govt may well be using the situation for its own political ends too, according to this report from NIQASH. The Iraqi dinar is […]
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