Sunday, December 24, 2023

"ANALYSIS OF IRAQ NEWS" BY MNT GOAT, 24 DEC

ASSOCIATION OF BANKS: THE BATTLE WITH DOLLAR SPECULATORS HAS REACHED ITS FINAL ROUND

(How many time have we heard this already? Will their strategy actually work ?)

The Iraqi Private Banks Association said today, Friday, that the battle with dollar speculators has reached its final round, and while it praised the Central Bank’s measures to regulate the movement of funds to achieve financial and bank reform,stressing that it will contribute to reclassifying banks, increasing their capital and raising the level of services provided to citizens.

The association’s economic and banking advisor, Samir Al-Nusairi, said in a statement to the official agency, followed by NRT Arabia, that “the Central Bank’s measures and efforts that have been made since the beginning of 2023 and with the support of the government have yielded results and begun to give results according to what was planned, and the so-called parallel (black) dollar has begun to die.” Speculators who deal in it to harm the national economy have been besieged, and currently the battle is with them in the final round.”

He added, “This is what was stated in detailed procedures and administrative, technical and negotiating steps with the US Federal Bank and the US Department of the Treasury and the understandings related to regulating foreign trade financing by approving the opening of accounts for Iraqi banks in American, Chinese, Emirati and Turkish correspondent banks to deal directly with them for foreign transfers in the currencies of these countries, which… It includes the dollar, the euro, the Chinese yuan, the Indian rupee, the Emirati dirham, and the Turkish lira, leaving the electronic platform in the year 2024, and importing the dollar and foreign currencies into Iraq from Iraqi bank accounts at correspondent banks or abroad.

(There was a weird recent article that said the currency auctions would NOT end in 20204. The electronic platform is the new currency auctions and so now we see this other article was NOT correct and they are ending. Their words not mine! ðŸ˜Š)

Al-Nusairi confirmed, “ Reaching agreements to open 40 accounts for Iraqi banks in correspondent banks for foreign trade,” noting that “the Central Bank’s new strategy to reform the banking sector will adopt the reclassification of banks and increase their capital to the ceiling set by the Central Bank in accordance with the specified time frames until the end of 2024, which will lead to… Raising the capabilities of our banks to provide the best banking products and services to customers, which will reflect positively on the movement of the economy, investment, development and the transition to comprehensive digital transformation.” 

He added, “Since the beginning of the year 2023, financial policies have been reconsidered according to a new vision for banking reform that complies with the requirements of the global financial system, and a new strategy has begun to be implemented with mechanisms based on studying and diagnosing the causes of the imbalance and determining the road map, steps, and executive procedures that have been and will be applied at the level of the central bank’s departments and banks.” And the bodies supporting banking work and government agencies related to comprehensive economic reform, as the Central Bank had previously issued new instructions for external transfers for the year 2023 and three procedural packages to facilitate and control the circulation of foreign currency in the monetary and commercial market.”

Al-Nusairi continued, “In August of this year, the Central Bank issued its important statement in which it defined its new strategy for organizing the financing of foreign trade according to new foundations that will move Iraq to the stage of regularity in the global financial system, and in which it clarified the executive procedures to control the stability of the exchange rate, and the most prominent of its contents are:

1.Adopting the electronic platform exclusively for foreign remittance transactions,

2.controlling illicit trade through official and unofficial border crossings, 3.stopping trading and transactions in dollars on the black market, 4.preventing all websites and media television channels from publishing exchange rates on the black market due to their violation of the law, and 5.having importers prove that all their imports were made through the platform and at the price.

 “The Customs Authority and the General Tax Authority have implemented proposals and treatments for small merchants to enter the platform in accordance with the rules, and this is consistent with the government’s initiative to launch the national project to control prohibited imports.”

He continued, “As we are in the final days of 2023, the Central Bank’s strategy for banking reform in all its axes has become clear for the coming year 2024 and the following years, and it is an embodiment of what it specified in the road map that it clarified in cooperation with the government in accordance with what was stated in the government’s curriculum in Axis 12 (Financial and Banking Reform) Paragraph 7 thereof is concerned with developing and enabling banks to contribute to development and investment.”

He explained, “Here we can summarize the Central Bank’s plan, which it is currently working to implement accurately, as follows: –

First – Providing a stable financial system lies in accompanying financial electronic systems. 

Secondly- Commitment to establishing the rules of compliance, risk management, transparency, and soundness of financial operations.

 Third – The transition from the cash economy to the digital economy and what is called the fourth revolution and the accompanying measures achieved a qualitative shift in the dealings between the government and the central bank. 

Fourth – Implementing the financial and banking reform plan, which is characterized by international standards that keep pace with global developments in the field of the financial digital economy.

Fifth – Work to strengthen international relations, including establishing a network of relations with foreign correspondent banks.

Sixth – Establishing Riyada Bank in line with the Prime Minister’s initiative and redirecting work on initiatives to finance small and medium enterprises according to specific standards.

 Seventh- Prepare and launch a strategy for financial inclusion and put it into effect in coordination with the relevant authorities.

 Eighth – Launching the national lending strategy, relying on the banks’ own financial capabilities to attract deposits and invest them in providing the best banking products to customers and contributing to development.

https://mntgoatnewsusa.com/latest-mnt-goat-newsletter/

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

Iraq intends to achieve self-sufficiency in petroleum products during the second quarter of 2024, 24 DEC

Iraq intends to achieve self-sufficiency in petroleum products during the second quarter of 2024

Shafaq News/ Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul Ghani, confirmed on Saturday the ministry’s intention to reach self-sufficiency in petroleum products during the second quarter of 2024, after the completion of a number of important projects in the refinery sector.

This came during the opening of the project to complete the fourth refining unit with a capacity of (70) thousand barrels per day at the South Refineries Company in Basra Governorate.

Abdul Ghani said in a speech during the celebration that operating this unit will provide large quantities of petroleum products, including naphtha, gas oil, kerosene, liquid gas, and others to cover a large portion of the local need.

The Minister of Oil indicated that the project was among the priorities of the government program and was completed in a record period by the national effort after foreign companies hesitated.

For his part, Director General of the South Refineries Company, Hossam Hussein Wali, said in a speech during the ceremony that the company fulfilled its obligations to the government and the ministry by completing the project within the planned period, stressing that the production of this unit of petroleum products will cover a large part of the local need, especially gas oil and kerosene, indicating that The company contributes through projects to increase refining capacity to meet local needs and improve the quality of petroleum products.

Meanwhile, Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said that the opening of the fourth unit, with a capacity of 70 thousand barrels per day, will contribute to raising the total refining capacity of the South Refineries Company to 280 thousand barrels per day.

He explained that the first stage will witness the opening of the isomerization unit to improve the quality of products in the refinery, in addition to continuing to complete the (FFC) project, which is considered one of the most promising projects and represents a qualitative leap in upgrading petroleum products to (Euro 5).

shafaq.com


"RV UPDATE" BY MILITIAMAN, 24 DEC

 Militia Man  

What I've always said is it makes more sense for Iraq to have a managed float which is effectively a fixed exchange rate...1 to 1 or 2 to 1, 3 to 1, 4 to 1 whatever they decide to do it makes it easier the higher that exchange rate is to defend...Having a...3 years budget keeps it stable...pricing stays stable.  

Anybody that says it's going to float to from a relatively low range to a high range over time they don't understand.  Article quote:  "The exchange rate will be fixed especially since it's been fixed in the federal budget law for 3 years says Saleh..."  This is coming from the advisor.  Don't talk about float.  It just doesn't make sense to anybody.

Since November of last year they have been working to do what?  Get rid of the parallel market.  And how are they doing that?  They're populating banks with many other currencies.  They're doing all those things that are necessary to do what?  Be article VIII compliant, to have a single currency, not a dual currency country.  They're getting rid of multi-currency practices.

  They're talking about reducing Iraq's dependence on oil.  Dependence on oil is going to go away because they have non oil related products...services...and sectors .  That's going to be from the taxes and tariffs at the borders, imports, exports, natural resources.  They're going to have other than just oil.  They're going to have other circumstances...They're talking about 350 million ton of sulfur...They're trying to achieve sustainability for the private sector..

Everybody knows Iraq is about to go International and they're going to have a digital transformation ...When they have this investment budget and they start spending...Iraq is going to be filthy rich with revenue streams from the electronic borders, agriculture, tourism... mining, sulfur, phosphates...they're going to have revenue like no other.  

There isn't anything else like it, in my lifetime, that I can see is going to trump Iraq... Don't forget...Iraq has a massive amount of hydrogen for clean energy...nobody else is talking about it...The amount of money and revenue streams Iraq is going to have is almost incomprehensible...It really is intense on how much money these guys are going to make on a regular basis..

https://dinarevaluation.blogspot.com/2023/12/rv-update-by-militiaman-21-dec.html

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"ANALISIS OF IRAQ NEWS" BY MNT GOAT, 24 DEC

AL-SUDANI TO PLASSCHAERT: THE GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO COMPLETE ALL CONSTITUTIONAL ENTITLEMENTS AND SUPPORT DECENTRALIZATION

The Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, received today, Thursday, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Jeanine Plasschaert.

During the meeting, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, which {Al-Furat News} received, Plasschaert “congratulated, on behalf of the International Organization, the Prime Minister on his government’s success in holding provincial council elections, as a step that enhances stability and consolidates democratic rule.”

During the meeting, the Prime Minister affirmed “the government’s determination to complete all constitutional entitlements and support administrative decentralization,which was embodied in holding provincial council elections, within its obligations in the government program,” pointing to Iraq’s desire to continue cooperation with the international organization and develop all its working development programs. in the country”.
 

(All I can say again is “I told you so” lol,,lol,,lol,,lol,,, Are we waiting for the Oil and Gas law. Makes total sense to me. The fact that they could not get agreements in place in time and the law passed could be a reason why January target was stalled.Just saying….)

https://mntgoatnewsusa.com/latest-mnt-goat-newsletter/

Parliamentary answer: Will the decision to reduce oil production affect dollar prices in Iraq?, 24 DEC

 Parliamentary answer: Will the decision to reduce oil production affect dollar prices in Iraq?

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Today, Saturday, a member of the House of Representatives, Intisar Al-Jazairi, explained the extent of the impact of Iraq’s reduction in oil production on the dollar exchange rates in local markets, while she considered the government’s policy to have “a great influence” on the exchange rate.

Al-Jazairi said, in an interview with the Maalouma Agency, that “the economic policy followed by the Iraqi government has greatly affected the exchange rates of the dollar in local markets,” expecting “the continued decline of the dollar locally.”

She added, “The effect of the voluntary reduction in oil production depends on whether or not it exists with the exchange rate in Iraqi markets, especially since oil exports depend mainly on the dollar.”

The member of the House of Representatives explained, “The Iraqi government has taken a decision regarding reducing oil production until the first quarter of 2024, but it has not yet been implemented,” pointing out that “the dollar prices during the next year and the events that will take place in the world, alone will determine the position of the government and Parliament.” of the reduction decision.

Earlier, economic affairs specialist Muhammad Al-Saadi confirmed that Iraq faces a valuable opportunity to maximize oil revenues by exploiting the reduction in oil production and achieving an increase in prices.

The OPEC Plus oil organization had decided, earlier, to reduce the oil production of member states, including Iraq, after the significant decline witnessed by the global market, and to once again increase demand for black gold.

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