Signing a memorandum of understanding to establish Iraqi companies with joint capital with the Emirates
Financial cooperation between Baghdad and Abu Dhabi
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani sponsored, today, Monday, the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Iraqi Securities Commission and the Abu Dhabi Securities Market, to enhance cooperation and financial services. In light of the memorandum, Emirati investments will be encouraged in establishing Iraqi companies with Emirati-Iraqi capital, and research into trading them in both markets.
Al-Sudani's office in a statement:
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani received today, Monday, the CEO of the Abu Dhabi Securities Market, Mr. Abdullah Salem Al-Nuaimi.
During the meeting, ways of joint cooperation in the field of exchanging expertise and developing mechanisms for expanding private sector activities to achieve economic growth were discussed.
The Prime Minister sponsored the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Abu Dhabi Securities Market. The agreement was signed on the Iraqi side by the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Faisal Wissam Al-Haims, and on the Emirati side by Mr. Abdullah Al-Naimi.
The MoU includes axes of cooperation in several areas, the most important of which are enhancing and developing the monitoring of daily trading in the market, and brokerage firms, cooperation in the field of dual listing conditions and mechanisms, and in developing and using technological applications and applications and mechanisms for subscriptions and initial listings, as well as in the field of cases of suspending trading on shares and timings for re-trading, and the requirements for licensing REIT funds.
The memorandum also included the exchange of expertise in the field of training, especially the activities of supervision and information technology, trading and clearing, digital transformation and financial analysis, depositing, managing funds and portfolios and supervising them, cooperation in the field of Islamic bonds and sukuk, depositing, settlement and independent financial services, and the requirements and mechanism for opening accounts for foreign investors from outside the country.
In light of the memorandum, Emirati investments will be encouraged in establishing Iraqi companies with Emirati-Iraqi capital, and their trading in both markets will be explored. link