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Central Bank: Using the best internationally approved systems and standards in the field of electronic payment

3/4/2024

Baghdad 

The Central Bank of Iraq announced today, Monday, the use of the best internationally approved systems and standards in the field of electronic payment, while indicating that it spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to develop infrastructure systems to build an important base for the development of electronic payment in Iraq.

The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Ammar Khalaf, said in a speech within the first Iraqi Digital Economy Forum, attended by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) correspondent: “The digital financial transformation in Iraq began with the localization of the salaries of state employees and the opening of bank accounts, the primary purpose of which is to use payment. Electronic transactions in daily transactions, whether inside or outside Iraq.

Khalaf added, “Iraqi society prefers to rely on cash in daily transactions, but the government’s efforts to support digital transformation, especially in the financial sector and other sectors, gave a strong impetus to the Central Bank over the past year and it continues to encourage and activate electronic payment in Iraq by issuing many Among the laws, controls and instructions that encourage the use of electronic payment in Iraq.

He pointed out that "some ministries responded quickly to the directives of the Central Bank and the Iraqi government, especially the Ministry of Oil by making collections at gas stations and others via electronic payment, as well as the Passports Directorate, which obligated payment to be electronic, in addition to the General Traffic Directorate and other ministries." Stressing that "all this support gives a very strong and significant impetus to electronic payment."

He pointed out that "the Central Bank has been the only influential player for many years, as it has embraced the importance of digital transformation in most of its transactions, and spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to develop infrastructure systems to build an important base for developing electronic payment in Iraq through the use of the best internationally approved systems and standards in this field." ".

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