The Central Bank Expects To Reduce The Printing Of The Iraqi Currency In The Coming Years, 27 FEB

The Central Bank Expects To Reduce The Printing Of The Iraqi Currency In The Coming Years

Time: 02/26/2024 Read: 2,925 times  {Economic: Al-Fart News} The Central Bank of Iraq expects that electronic payment operations will reduce the printing of paper currencies in the coming years.

The Director of the Operations and Settlements Department in the Bank’s Information Technology and Payments Department, Zaid Hamid Rashid, said in a press statement, “The bank provided the infrastructure for electronic payment operations, by spreading culture and awareness of this issue and implementing the decisions of the Council of Ministers,” noting that “these decisions It can be applied in settlement systems to activate the mutuality through which these decisions are implemented.”

He added, "Every new business may face some obstacles, problems, and mistakes at the beginning, and we are working to find solutions to these obstacles," pointing out that "holding workshops and meetings in this regard, to review a number of numbers that proved the project's success and citizens' acceptance of it."

Rashid continued, "Any problem or obstacle is a complete cycle, and every party has a role in it, such as the central bank and government banks that lacked their own systems, which was the main reason for these problems."

Rashid explained that "electronic payment will reduce the process of printing paper currency, in addition to the strategic benefits for the state in general and the citizen in particular."   LINK