Financial expert to Iraq Observer: Western Union has set a ceiling for its money transfers from Iraq and has not stopped them completely

 Financial and banking expert Mustafa Hantoush believes that Western Union Banking Company has set a ceiling for sending money transfers from Iraq and has not suspended them permanently.

Hantoush told Iraq Observer, “Western Union has reduced the size of its money transfers. For example, instead of transferring an amount of $1,000, it will become $500.”

He added, "The Central Bank has not issued any official statement regarding the suspension of Western Union Company for money transfers from Iraq," noting that this information must be verified from its primary source, which is the Central Bank."

Local news agencies reported that the world's largest money transfer company, Western Union, has stopped its money transfers from Iraq without providing further details, at a time when the dollar is witnessing a continuous rise. Meanwhile, a prominent financial source who preferred to remain anonymous told Iraq Observer that the matter is related to setting a ceiling for money transfers issued by Western Union from Iraq, ruling out a final halt.

The financial markets in Iraq are witnessing a state of instability in the exchange rate of the dollar against the Iraqi dinar, as it has been approaching 150,000 for days, in anticipation of the visit of the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq to the United States of America.

Economic researcher Ziad Al-Hashemi said in a tweet on the X platform: The governor of the Central Bank was sent to New York to discuss the issue of the failure of yuan transfers to China, which the Central Bank relied heavily on to sell dollars and provide the dinar needed to feed the government’s finances.

He added: The causes of the problem remaining unresolved and the strong parties hovering around the Central Bank and searching for the dollar, without accountability, neutrality or internal Iraqi restrictions, will make all the pledges that Al-Alaq will present without any real value, as the same person has previously presented the same pledges throughout the past ten years, and the same problem is still ongoing without a solution, according to him.  link