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Sami al Araji, chairman of Iraq's National Investment Commission (NIC), has told a business audience in New Delhi that his country needs $500-$700 billion in investment to rebuild its infrastructure. Araji compared the opportunities in Iraq to "Germany after the Second World War", adding, "our message to the world is that we are open for […]
Bloomberg reports that EFG-Hermes Holding SAE, the biggest publicly traded Arab investment bank, started offering an equity-swap product linked to Iraqi securities. This potentially allows investors to benefit from the nation's economic growth, which the World Bank estimates at 12.6% in 2012. “Despite the prevailing risk-averse nature of investment in the Middle East and North […]
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The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. […]
After months of wrangling, the Iraqi House of Representatives has finally approved the $100.5 billion budget for 2012, according to AKnews. The budget is based on an average oil price of $85 per barrel and 2.6m barrels per day in crude oil exports, up from last year's budget of $82.6b, which was based on an […]
The Iraqi Middle East Investment Bank (IMEIB) has achieved a net profit of Iraqi dinar IQD21.6 billion ($18 million) in 2011, according to a report from Arab News. As at the end of 2011, the total cash in hand and at bank was IQD369.7 billion, compared to IQD 343.9 billion in 2010. The monetary credit […]
AKnews reports that businesses and currency traders are rejecting 10,000 dinar notes because of rumours about the increasing spread of counterfeit currency. Government sources said last year that an estimated 7 billion dinars worth of forged 10,000 notes came into Iraq from Iran. The fake currency is said to is said to be of high […]
AKnews reports that the process of removing three zeros from the Iraqi dinar and replacing current banknotes with new ones will begin in September. The announcement, which will see the Iraqi Central Bank (ICB) re-print 30 trillion dinars ($26 billion), was made despite government fear over the project. Abdul-Hussein Abtan, a member of the economic […]
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The Iraqi Company for Bank Guarantees (ICBG) is a privately-owned non-banking financial institution that guarantees repayment of up to 75% of loans, ranging from $5,000 up to $250,000, that private commercial banks extend to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Iraq. Early this year, the company reached a significant milestone when it surpassed $50 million […]
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The Iranian currency, the toman, or rial, has lost half its value against the Iraqi dinar in recent weeks following U.S. and European sanctions, according to a report from Azzaman. Iraqi traders welcomed the slump saying it has made the import of Iranian goods much cheaper than before. In the holy cities of Najaf and […]
