Category: Iraqi Dinar/Politics

Iraq continues its negotiations with WTO for accession

The Ministry of Commerce held a meeting with representatives of the World Trade Organization in Baghdad to continue the ongoing negotiations between the parties to Iraq’s accession to the WTO, and discussed at the meeting, which was held yesterday a set of laws and legislation of an economic nature that Iraq must approve in the coming period.

After months of lifting the CH VII; CBI prepares to take over Iraq’s assets in America

after the passage of months out of Iraq from Chapter VII, is preparing the central bank eventually to raise U.S. protection imposed on the Iraqi funds deposited in the United States, step has been welcomed and raised fears at the same time about the possibility of achieving a quantum leap in the process of construction or damage the money of the Iraqi Foreign Will it be the money to the summit, “easy prey” for some actors, under the pretext of debt?.

CBI: 15 Arab and foreign banks have opened branches in Iraq since the beginning of this year

Revealed the CBI, on Wednesday, announced the opening of 15 branches of the Arab banks or foreign country during the last three months of 2014, the current, as a result of his policy of openness to the world, noting that pulling off one branch of the Arab bank for violating the conditions laid down in the laws.

World Bank warns Iraqi government from interfering in the work of the CBI

{Baghdad: Euphrates News} said Liberal MP from the parliamentary bloc Bahaa al-Araji, that the “international student Nabek reform policies and non-interference by the Iraqi government in the political CBI especially with regard to the subject of borrowing.”

Press Release: Statement by the IMF Mission at the Conclusion of a Staff Visit for Iraq

An IMF mission led by Carlo Sdralevich, Mission Chief for Iraq, visited Amman during the period March19-24 to meet with an official Iraqi delegation led by Acting Minister of Finance, Dr. Safa Al Safi. The mission also met with the Acting Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Abdul Basit Al Turki Said, and officials from the ministries of finance, planning, and oil, the central Bank, and the Board of Supreme Audit. The IMF team also consulted with representatives of Iraqi private sector and diplomatic community in Amman. The mission reviewed recent macroeconomic developments and the current fiscal and monetary issues. This work will help prepare the 2014 Article IV consultation with Iraq later in the year.