Thursday, February 15, 2024

Private Banks Call On Parliament To Intervene To Address US Sanctions

 Private Banks Call On Parliament To Intervene To Address US Sanctions

Economy | 02/14/2024  Mawazine News – Baghdad   , today, Wednesday, the Association of Private Banks called on the House of Representatives to intervene to “address” the issue of the American sanctions imposed on it.

A statement by the House of Representatives’ Economy, Industry and Trade Committee, received by Mawazine News, stated that it was “hosting the Association of Iraqi Banks and directors of private banks, to discuss the sanctions imposed by the US Federal Bank on some of them.”

She added, “I listened to a detailed explanation provided by the Association and the directors of private banks about the most important problems and obstacles that private banks suffer from, including “freezing their balances abroad and stopping foreign transactions and transfers with correspondent banks.”

The Association of Private Banks stated, according to the statement, that the ban imposed on these banks “He came in a letter from the Central Bank of Iraq without explaining the reasons,” calling on the House of Representatives and the Parliamentary Economics Committee to “intervene to address this issue in cooperation with the Central Bank and the Council of Ministers.”

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