Friday, August 4, 2023
IRAQ NEWS, 4 AUGUST
Dollar's momentum weakens before payrolls assessment
Shafaq News / The dollar hung back from a four-week high against major peers on Friday as investors looked ahead to a key jobs report that could influence the path for U.S. interest rates.
Sterling traded higher after recovering knee-jerk losses following the Bank of England's decision to downshift to a quarter point rate hike on Thursday.
The yen hovered near the middle of its trading range this week as traders tried to gauge the Bank of Japan's tolerance for higher yields following last week's surprise policy tweak.
Meanwhile, the Australian dollar strengthened amid a flurry of positive news, from the resolution of a barley standoff with China to new stimulus signals from its key trading partner, and just a generally more positive environment for risk assets.
The U.S. dollar index , which gauges the currency against a basket of six counterparts, edged 0.06% lower to 102.39 in Asia. On Thursday, it had pushed to the highest since July 7 at 102.84 at one point, but lost steam later in the day with the monthly nonfarm payrolls report looming on Friday.
The whisper number for payrolls may be higher than the median forecast among economists for a 200,000 increase for July, following reports this week showing low levels of initial jobless claims and much stronger than expected ADP employment data, Kristina Clifton, an analyst at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, wrote in a note.
"The implication is the USD may pull back sharply if payrolls print below or even in line with the reported consensus," she said.
The dollar slipped slightly to 142.40 yen , as long-term Treasury yields - which the currency pair tends to track closely - retreated from Thursday's nearly nine-month high at 4.198% in Tokyo trading.
Sterling rose 0.19% to $1.27335, after dipping as low as $1.2620 on Thursday for the first time since June 30 after the BoE decision, despite a warning that rates were likely to stay high for some time.
https://shafaq.com/en/Economy/Dollar-s-momentum-weakens-before-payrolls-assessment
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CBI Rolls a List of Decrees to Control Illegal Forex Exchange
Shafaq News/ The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has issued a list of regulations to control the foreign currency trading in the parallel markets, reiterating its commitment to providing currency through official channels for all legally permissible transactions.
"The source of the US dollar circulating in the local markets is the Central Bank of Iraq, which offers it through banks and exchange companies at the official rate of 1320 dinars per dollar," the CBI said in a press release, "the so-called 'parallel market' has no truth to it, and what is traded is speculative with fixed-price currency, and is illegitimate trading."
According to the statement, the CBI is the primary source of foreign currency in Iraq, and all claims of an independent "parallel market" are entirely unfounded. Such descriptions are only applicable when the market has its particular sources from private sector exports, local tourism, residents' transfers abroad, etc.
As part of its strategy to achieve the main public objectives, including stabilizing the exchange rate, the CBI has also announced a new system focusing on the execution of all foreign remittances and documentary credits via an electronic platform. This platform allows for meticulous pre-audit checks, verification of the final beneficiary, and safeguards all parties from both domestic and international risks.
In addition to this, personal remittances abroad for education, healthcare, personal needs, and retiree salaries for residents abroad will be facilitated through international money transfer companies like Western Union and MoneyGram.
Travelers will be provided with dollar bills at the official rate through banks and exchange companies, and these transactions will be carried out through an electronic platform for verifying the authenticity and purpose of these amounts.
The mentioned system, in its three dimensions, limits any practices that could expose Iraq and its banking sector and financial institutions to risks. By providing and opening these channels for legitimate purposes, dealing with the dollar outside of them becomes an illegal practice subject to legal accountability towards the parties involved. No party or individual has the right to trade a dollar originating from the Central Bank, which sets the price, channels, limits, and purposes for its use. Trading and dealing with it outside of authorized entities is considered a prohibited activity under the law. As stipulated by the Banking Law No. (94) of 2004 in Article (3), no person is allowed to engage in activities involving the receipt of deposits or other payable funds from the public without obtaining a license or permit issued by the Central Bank of Iraq.
The implementation of the foreign remittance system, documentary credits, and cash sale of foreign currency involves achieving economic, regulatory, and legal objectives, including the following:
1. Enhancing Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Measures: It aims to fend off local and international sanction risks for all related parties.
2. Ensuring the Integrity and Transparency of Iraq's Imports: By directing imports within channels that ensure the safety and transparency of operations, the system also provides essential data and information for planning, regulation, and control purposes.
3. Generating Additional Revenue for the State: This can be achieved by subjecting all imports to comprehensive registration procedures and subsequent fees.
4. Gaining the Trust of Credible International Banks: This move will expand the network of relationships between the local and foreign banking sectors and increase the number of Iraqi bank correspondents.
5. Closing Illicit Foreign Transfer Channels: It also helps in containing the proceeds of crimes and corruption and preventing them from escaping abroad.
6. Preventing Import Goods from Being Affected by Exchange Rate Differences: This includes avoiding the higher costs incurred when purchasing at an unofficial market rate from the black market, leading to price increases and a negative impact on the citizens' purchasing power.
"The people who buy the dollar from the market and provide an opportunity for speculators and beneficiaries, and trade at an unofficial exchange rate, are:
1. Importers among traders: who do not follow the proper methods in foreign transfer operations (remittances and documentary credits) through the electronic platform, available to them at the official rate. They attempt to collect cash dollars exclusively allocated for citizens' travel from the market, or by using electronic payment cards designated for citizens' purchases and expenses abroad or for personal transfers for legitimate purposes.
2. Importers of prohibited or narcotic substances such as drug dealers, or materials that do not pass through official border crossings to escape legal or customs requirements, such as importers of cigarettes and some importers of precision devices. They resort to the market to buy dollars not allocated to them to settle their obligations.
3. Those who achieve returns from the proceeds of crimes, such as bribes, thefts, kidnappings, extortion, sale of prohibitions, etc., and seek to transfer them abroad to conceal them.
4. Citizens who pay for their purchases of goods and services inside Iraq in dollars, prompting them to buy the dollar from the market. Since there is no allocation from the Central Bank's dollar sales for this purpose, their purchase comes from a share allocated for other purposes, especially travel."
"To address the mentioned phenomena, and reduce the phenomenon of the illegitimate market and a higher exchange rate than determined, work is underway with the government and related entities to take the following measures:
- Requiring traders and importers to use the designated channel through the electronic platform, achieving the objectives of this system and preventing the use of cash dollars in the market for purposes other than their intended ones. This requires obliging this category to provide proof of their import amounts originally when their goods enter Iraq at official border crossings.
- Encouraging and supporting the traders' categories to enter the electronic platform by simplifying procedures, especially tax ones, defining their ceilings in advance according to categories, and depositing them in the account of the General Tax Authority through their accounts in banks.
- Tightening control over official border crossings and closing unofficial ones, coordinating between the federal government and the regional government regarding regulating the entry of goods and the fees imposed on them, and preventing the entry of prohibited and legally banned materials.
- Strict application by the competent authorities of Cabinet Resolution No. (23026) for 2023, which includes limiting the sale and purchase of goods and services in Iraqi dinars within Iraq."
"We call for providing official, popular, and media national support in implementing the above, to achieve the referred goals, preserving the integrity of the movement of funds and foreign trade, and warding off risks from the country and its banking sector and financial institutions, through compliance with the rules of the law on combating money laundering and terrorist financing, and related international standards and practices," it concluded.
https://shafaq.com/en/Economy/CBI-Rolls-a-List-of-Decrees-to-Control-Illegal-Forex-Exchange
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"THE CBI ISSUES A STATEMENT REGARDING DEALING IN USD AND THE EXCHANGE RATE", 4 AUGUST
The Central Bank of Iraq issues a new statement regarding dealing in dollars and the exchange rate
2023-08-03 03:27
The Central Bank of Iraq issues a new statement regarding dealing in dollars and the exchange rateShafaq News/ The management of the Central Bank of Iraq considered, on Thursday, what is being traded in the markets of the exchange rate of the dollar against the dinar by speculators “illegitimate”, calling for the need for all parties to join hands to achieve stability in the exchange rate, especially that Iraq has sufficient foreign reserves to meet legitimate needs.
Shafaq News Agency publishes the text of the statement issued by the Central Bank administration:
Following up on the recent developments in the local markets, especially with regard to trading an unofficial exchange rate in the platforms and daily transactions and its unreal and artificial fluctuations, requires us to clarify the basic facts related to the trading of foreign currency (the US dollar) in the local markets, and the role of the Central Bank of Iraq in providing the currency foreign affairs through its official sources, which included all legally permitted transactions, and prevented other illegal transactions. And the need for all relevant parties to unite and cooperate in order to achieve the main general goals, including the stability of the exchange rate in light of the presence of sufficient foreign reserves to meet the legitimate needs of citizens, merchants and investors in foreign currency.
Hence, we would like to state the following:
The source of the US dollar circulating in the local markets is the Central Bank of Iraq, which offers it through banks, exchange and mediation companies, at the official rate (1320) dinars per dollar. Accordingly, what is called the “parallel market” has no reality, as this description is given when the market has its own sources of foreign currency, through private sector exports, local tourism, remittances from residents abroad, and others.
In order to achieve the goal of controlling the movement of funds and foreign trade, and in implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Law, and in order to enhance the application of international standards, the new system is based on:
The implementation of all foreign transfers and documentary credits through the electronic platform, in which all operations are pre-checked in all respects, and the final beneficiary is verified, which protects the banking sector, non-bank financial institutions and all parties to those operations from the risks they face locally and internationally. Legitimate transfers without limits or restrictions, and the Central Bank does not set ceilings for banks authorized to conduct the transfer. Rather, this depends on the bank’s ability to attract customers, the validity and accuracy of operations, and the number of its accredited correspondents abroad.
Carrying out personal transfers abroad, such as wages for studies, treatment, purchasing personal needs, residents’ transfers, pensions for residents abroad, and others, through international money transfer companies, such as “Western Union and Money Gram.” Citizens are also allowed to use electronic payment cards to be used to purchase goods and services abroad. All these operations and others are covered by the Central Bank at the official established exchange rate.
Providing cash dollars to travelers at the official rate set, through banks and exchange and mediation companies, and these operations are carried out through an electronic platform to verify the safety of operations, and the correct use of those amounts for traveling citizens. This platform is currently being developed with strict verification procedures and limiting its use to the specified purpose and at the prescribed price.
The aforementioned system, with its three dimensions, limits any practices that would expose Iraq and its banking sector and financial institutions to risks, and by providing these channels and opening them for legitimate purposes, it makes dealing in dollars outside it an illegal practice subject to legal accountability towards the parties involved in its practice, as no party has the right Or a person trading in dollars issued by the Central Bank, which determines a price, channels, limits, and purposes for its use, and its circulation and trading outside the licensed authorities is a prohibited activity according to the law, as Banking Law No. (94) of 2004 stipulates in Article (3) that no person has the right To engage in the business of receiving deposits, or other funds payable by the public, without obtaining a license or permit issued by the Central Bank of Iraq.
The application of the system of foreign transfers, documentary credits and cash sale of foreign currency involves achieving economic, regulatory and legal objectives, including the following:
Enhancing anti-money laundering and terrorist financing measures, and preventing the risks of local and international sanctions from all relevant parties.
Bringing Iraq’s imports into channels that ensure the safety and transparency of operations, and providing important databases and information for planning, organizing and control purposes.
Achieving additional revenues for the state by subjecting all imports to procedures for comprehensive registration of their details and the resulting fees.
Gaining the trust of accredited international banks, which expands the network of relations between the local and foreign banking sector, and increases the number of Iraqi bank correspondents.
Closing the outlets for illegal foreign transfers, besieging the proceeds of crime and corruption, and preventing them from finding a way to escape abroad.
Not charging imported goods the exchange rate difference resulting from paying a higher price when buying it at the unofficial price on the black market, which leads to higher prices and a negative impact on the purchasing power of citizens.
The groups that buy the dollar from the market and create an opportunity for speculators and beneficiaries to trade an unofficial exchange rate are:
Importers of merchants who do not follow the fundamental methods of external transfers (remittances and documentary credits) via the electronic platform, which is available to them at the official price, through attempts to collect cash dollars that are exclusively for citizens’ travel from the market, or by using electronic payment cards designated to pay citizens’ purchases and expenses abroad. , or for personal transfers for legitimate purposes.
Importers of prohibited or narcotic substances such as drug dealers and others, or of materials that do not pass through the official border crossings, to escape the requirements of the law or customs, such as importers of cigarettes and some importers of precision instruments, so they go to the market to buy dollars that are not allocated to them to pay their bills.
The category that generates revenues from the proceeds of crimes, such as bribes, thefts, kidnapping, extortion, selling contraband, etc., and they transfer them abroad to hide them.
Citizens who pay for their purchases of goods and services inside Iraq in dollars, which prompts them to buy dollars from the market, and since there is no allocation from the central bank’s sales of dollars for this purpose, their purchase is from a share allocated for other purposes, especially travel.
In order to address the aforementioned phenomena, and reduce the phenomenon of the illegal market, and an exchange rate higher than the prescribed one, work is being done with the government and the relevant authorities to take the following measures:
Merchants and importers use the prescribed channel for that, via the electronic platform, to achieve the objectives of this system and prevent the use of cash dollars in the market for other than its purposes, and this requires obligating this category to provide evidence that the amount of their imports has been duly transferred when their goods enter Iraq at the official border crossings.
Stimulating and supporting categories of merchants to enter the electronic platform by simplifying procedures, especially tax ones, defining their ceilings in advance according to categories, and depositing them in the account of the General Tax Authority through its bank accounts.
Tightening control over the official border crossings and closing unofficial ones, coordinating between the federal government and the regional government regarding the organization and unification of entry procedures for goods and the fees imposed on them, and preventing the entry of prohibited and legally prohibited materials.
The competent authorities undertake the strict application of Cabinet Resolution No. (23026) for the year 2023, which includes limiting the sale and purchase of goods and services in Iraqi dinars inside Iraq.
We call for the provision of official, popular, and media national support in implementing the aforementioned, to achieve the aforementioned goals, in a way that preserves the safety and soundness of the movement of money and foreign trade, and staves off risks for the country, its banking sector, and its financial institutions, by adhering to the rules of the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Law, and international standards and practices. related to.
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The Central Bank Intends To Take New Measures To Ensure A Reduction In The Dollar Exchange Rate
Aug 3 21:37 Information / Baghdad...Today, Thursday, the Central Bank identified three categories of exchange companies for selling dollars to travelers, and while revealing a proposal regarding the entry of imported goods through border crossings, it indicated that there are new decisions that will be issued next week that may contribute to lowering the price of the dollar.
Deputy Governor Ammar Hamad Khalaf said in a statement to the official TV, followed by / information / that "the Central Bank provides exchange companies with weekly quotas of the dollar for the purpose of selling it to travelers at the official price and in limited quantities of 3 thousand dollars per traveler," indicating,
"These exchange companies are licensed through The Central Bank is in accordance with controls and is in compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering Law.
He added, "One of the basic tasks of all exchange companies A, B, and mediation C is to provide dollars to travelers at the official rate and in the quantity specified by the Central Bank," noting,
"There is an electronic platform that the Central Bank has been working on developing since the beginning of this year, and all dollar sales to citizens are done." Through this platform that is closely monitored by the Central Bank. And he stated,
“The Central Bank finances the market in dollars through this platform for categories of merchants and small traders and through exchange companies for travelers only.” And
Al-Rasheed through its outlets at airports, while exchange companies are specialized only in the process of selling dollars to travelers].
And he indicated that "the Central Bank submitted a proposal to the ports and customs, which is that any goods entering Iraq must ensure that the merchant has financed these imports through the Central Bank of Iraq," pointing out,
"The printing of the Iraqi currency will not be random."
Regarding the increase in the monetary mass, Khalaf stressed that
"the process of increasing the monetary mass is directly linked to the process of increasing the foreign reserves owned by the Central Bank,
so any financing for the public treasury is through the exchange of dollars obtained from oil sales with dinars, and therefore any increase in the dinar mass comes mainly from foreign currency."".
And on the exchange rate, Khalaf confirmed that "the Central Bank issued several decisions related to the banking sector," explaining that
"other decisions will be issued next week, which may contribute significantly to reducing the exchange rate of the dollar." ended 25 n
https://almaalomah.me/news/economy/البنك-المركزي-يعتزم-اتخاذ-إجراءات-جديدة-لضمان-خفض-سعر-صرف-ال
THE BIG CALL HIGHLIGHTS, 4 AUGUST
Thurs. 3 Aug. 2023 Bruce, The Big Call The Big Call Universe (ibize.com) 667-770-1866, pin123456#
- Liquidity for the GCR was intended to be released yesterday Wed, 2 Aug, but didn’t because three things still needed to be done: (1) takedown of the Biden Administration, (2) EBS emerged with the Global Financial System for disclosure and (3) announcement of NESARA and GESARA.
- The EBS would be emerged with the Global Financial System by Thurs. 3 Aug. evening.
- NESARA/GESARA will be announced sometime between when we begin our appointments and the middle of August.
- Bond Holders will be liquid and paid on Mon. 7 Aug. or Tues. 8 Aug.
- Tier4b will be notified Mon. 7 Aug. or Tues. 8 Aug. and exchanges will begin Tues.8 Aug. or Wed. 9 Aug.
- Currency was trading and their rates were changing at the bank every day.
- BRICS nations have dumped the fiat US Dollar.
- As of midnight Tues. 1 Aug. the Black Hats in the Military were no longer a problem.
- The Alliance was in full control of HAARP – the system that could control the weather.
- All Zim will be redeemed through the Wells Fargo Redemption Centers – which will close after two weeks. After that the Zim would have to be redeemed at a Wells Fargo Bank.
- You can only have three banks connected to your Quantum Account.
- You will be getting a 55 page book showing who you cannot give money to.
- You will be given a $1,000 coupon to be used to purchase a new computer that works with the Quantum Financial System.
- You will be under an NDA for 30-60 days. You cannot talk about your exchange to anyone. If you want certain people as exclusions to the NDA, have their names typed up on a paper to hand in at your exchange.
JUDY NOTE, 4 AUGUST
Global Currency Revaluation:
- Thurs. 3 Aug Bruce: Liquidity for the GCR was intended to be released yesterday Wed, 2 Aug, but didn’t because three things still needed to be done: (1) takedown of the Biden Administration, (2) EBS emerged with the Global Financial System for disclosure and (3) announcement of NESARA and GESARA. The EBS would be emerged with the Global Financial System by Thurs. 3 Aug. evening. NESARA/GESARA will be announced sometime between when we begin our appointments and the middle of August. Bond Holders will be liquid and paid on Mon. 7 Aug. or Tues. 8 Aug. Tier4b (Us, the Internet Group) will be notified Mon. 7 Aug. or Tues. 8 Aug. and our exchanges will begin Tues.8 Aug. or Wed. 9 Aug. You will be under an NDA for 30-60 days. You cannot talk about your exchange to anyone. If you want certain people as exclusions to the NDA, have their names typed up on a paper to hand in at your exchange.
- Thurs. 3 Aug. MarkZ: “I am still hearing the rumor that we will see the new rate when they issue and publish the instructions for the budget…which has already been passed. They have done a great job of keeping this under wraps and secret. I know a number of very connected people who are traveling to be in place by Fri. 4 Aug. Getting mixed reports as to whether this will be Saturday or Monday/Tuesday. Personally I think this is going to be “IT.”
- Tues. 1 Aug. Captain Marvel Jr.: “Received word that the EBS could go off any time between now and the end of the weekend.”
- On Sun. 30 July Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the Global Currency Reset and on Mon. 31 July, signed a digital ruble bill into law, approving the use of its central bank digital currency for payments starting from Aug. 1, 2023.
- Mon. 31 July Bearded Patriot: “Just got off a call and can confirm that the first wave of liquidity starts Tues. 1 Aug. There were multiple steps regarding the payout pecking order: Beneficiary Accts, Fines & Penalties, Whales, etc. There were an extreme amount of funds and groups that needed to get paid. It will take a few days. Once it’s starts nothing can stop it. Iraq’s desire was to have this completed and published in the Gazette on Sat. 5 Aug.”
- Mon. 31 July Ranga Rao Konuganti Tom RV/GCR Updates: “Money is moving, large amounts from Singapore to the Philippines, from the Windsor Fund (one of the top six global collateral accounts) to the Chinese Elders, so that they can execute the Financial Transition.”
- Sun. 30 July Texas Snake: Text received 10:10 this morning from a Banker: “All indications are from high sources is that this coming week will have positive news in light that all 209 countries have approved the required protocols. So will advise ASAP after I receive the news.”
- Sun. 30 July Wolverine: “Very early today I received Intel from a very high Contact. I can’t tell you what they said other than things are progressing. Everything is ready. It won’t happen today but we may have very good news this week.”
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