HERE WE highlight recent positive chatter originating from Iraq, where key meetings among financial experts and government officials are underway, aimed at reinforcing the country’s economic reforms AND enhance the value of the Iraqi Dinar.
Key Points:
Optimism in Iraq’s Economy: The atmosphere is filled with hope, characterized by intense discussions among stakeholders focused on stabilizing and reforming Iraq's financial system.
Key Stakeholders: Significant meetings are scheduled with individuals from the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), governmental bodies, and representatives from the U.S. Treasury. These dialogues are integral to establishing clear plans for the dinar's future.
Pillars of Financial Reform:
Banking Reform: Enhancing bank efficiency, transparency, and compliance with international standards.
Insurance Sector Development: Establishing a robust insurance market to protect investments and mitigate risks.
Stock Market Expansion: Building a dynamic stock market for capital raising and investment opportunities.
Elimination of Parallel Market: To boost the dinar's value, it's crucial to eradicate the parallel market for the U.S. dollar that leads to its artificial depreciation. Strategies include enhancing regulatory frameworks and ensuring transparency in currency transactions.
Sustainable Dinar Rate: The CBI must establish an official exchange rate for the dinar that accurately reflects Iraq’s economic conditions and undertake further analysis alongside international dialogues.
Project to Delete Zeros: A radical initiative intended to stabilize the economy by replacing large denomination notes with smaller ones, simplifying transactions and reducing inflation.
Goal of Global Reintegration: Ultimately, the aim is to reinstate the IQD (Iraqi dinar) onto global exchanges by demonstrating economic stability and creating tradable market options.
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Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani extended an invitation to the Secretary-General of the Digital Cooperation Organization, Dima Al-Yahya, to visit Iraq.
The Prime Minister's Media Office stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani received yesterday evening, Sunday, Baghdad time, the Secretary-General of the Digital Cooperation Organization, Dima Al-Yahya, on the sidelines of his participation in New York in the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly." At the beginning of the meeting, the Prime Minister expressed his "thanks for Dima Al-Yahya's serious efforts and interest in Iraq's accession to the organization, which represents a personal interest for him, with what the organization can provide in terms of expertise, skills, training, and codification of laws and rules for all digital businesses, most notably digital trade and how to activate and benefit from it.
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The Prime Minister stated that "a higher committee for digital transformation in Iraq has been formed, headed by the Prime Minister, and the committee will develop a comprehensive strategy for digital businesses and artificial intelligence, in line with Iraq's ambitions and international requirements in the field of digital transformation, extending an official invitation to Al-Yahya to visit Iraq."
For her part, Al-Yahya welcomed "Iraq's approval to join the Digital Cooperation Organization, as there are multiple action plans and programs that will soon see the light in Iraq after it signs the organization's charter, and she stressed that Iraq will be one of the countries that benefit from the transfer of skills and training."
Article quote: "US Department of Treasury...Deputy Secretary of the Treasury has support for the Central Bank of Iraq and the Prime Minister's reform agenda...He's applauded Iraq's 6% growth in the non-oil economy."
Here they are just getting started and they've already got 6% increase. That's huge you guys. That's really big.
The '23, '24, '25 tripartite budget for investment they haven't exposed it yet..
.Why not?
Probably because it has an exchange rate sensitivity to it.
Alaq is stating, 'we are constantly reviewing the deletion of the zeros from the dinar and there are no restrictions on our balances in America.' So here again he's talking about deletion of the zeros in September 2024 just like he did back in July of 2023.
Quote: "The Central Bank of Iraq has reduced reliance on the US dollar in commercial transactions according to the governor of the Central Bank...
adding that the project to remove the zeros in Iraq is under continuous review and study at the bank." It's fascinating to see he's back beating the drum about deletion of the zeros.
REMOVING ZEROS FROM THE IRAQI DINAR IS BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT..STRENGTHENING THE CURRENCY OR JUST CHANGING ITS FORM?
Talk has returned again about the process of removing zeros from the local Iraqi currency, as the Central Bank of Iraq confirmed that the project to remove zeros from the dinar is subject to continuous review and study.
Countries remove zeros from their currency to revalue their national currency and simplify financial transactions. This is done by removing a specific number of zeros from the nominal value of the currency, making it appear less inflationary and more stable.
The central banks of these countries usually issue a new currency, equal in value to one hundred thousand or one million of the old currency, with the old currency gradually being withdrawn from the markets, after a period in which the two currencies are allowed to be used side by side. The most famous countries that have implemented this process, more than once, successfully were Turkey and the former Yugoslavia.
In his statements, Ali Mohsen Al-Alaq, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, considered that the bank responded to global economic challenges such as rising energy and raw material prices by amending some monetary policies in line with the international situation and to enhance confidence in the Iraqi dinar and prevent a sharp decline in its value.
Al-Alaq pointed out that the Central Bank of Iraq increased its holdings of foreign exchange and gold reserves to strengthen the country’s financial position and stability, in order to enhance its ability to confront potential economic crises.
Commenting on this, economic researcher Ali Daadoush said in an interview with Al-Mada, “The process of deleting zeros is linked to the Central Bank of Iraq,” indicating that “the issue is not new and was previously discussed about 14 years ago. “
(What they don’t want you to know is this has been the plan since very start to eventually delete the zeros, but only once they were done stealing enough. Having this currency auction in place allowed for massive corruption and up to a trillion dollars worth of oil revenues were stolen and never made it to the people of Iraq for the benefit of the people of Iraq.)
Daadoush pointed out that “the process of deleting prices is psychological, as the commodity worth a thousand dinars will be worth one dinar and remain at the same value.”
(I told you so…. 😊 No one in Iraq is going to get rich over the RV… Get it now! Yes, all you TNT idiot followers)
The economic researcher pointed out that “removing zeros leads to flexible dealing with the local currency and strengthens it, and may lead to increased production and diversification of the economy, and thus enhance the value of the Iraqi dinar.”
For his part, economic affairs expert Mustafa Hantoush said in an interview with Al-Mada, “The issue of removing zeros from the Iraqi currency is only arithmetic and keeps the currency at the same value. That is, when you sell a house for 100 million, it will be sold for 100 thousand.”
Hantoush added that “countries resort to deleting zeros when there is an expansion in the value of the printed currency and problems occur in the book value and accounting entries, for the purpose of restoring accounting balances.”
The economic researcher went on to say, “
Iraq is currently suffering from problems with the exchange rate,” indicating that “the value of printing and replacing the currency costs Iraq time, effort and millions of dollars.”
(Get to 80% digital banking, shrink the monetary mass by 2/3, collect the 3 zero notes, issue new currency to replace up to only 1/3 of the monetary mass and these issues go away. This is recipe for a VERY strong currency///)
Hantoush said, “The situation now requires focusing on how to maintain the value of the Iraqi currency against foreign currencies.”
According to the latest data, the Central Bank of Iraq’s foreign reserves cover 83.62% of the broad money supply, which covers the cost of importing 15 months, while the global standard rate is 20%, covering 6 months of importing.
(WOW! WOW! What country can make this statement and brag about it? 😊 )
Foreign exchange reserves are a tool used by all central banks to maintain the stability of the local currency exchange rate against foreign currencies, as well as to reduce exposure to external crises by maintaining liquidity in foreign currency to absorb shocks in times of crisis.
The Iraqi currency is under great pressure, which has caused its price to decline against the dollar during the past period, including the increase in the Iraqi budget deficit. Two weeks ago, Mazhar Salih, financial advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, said that Iraq will face a budget crisis in 2025 due to the decline in oil prices, the country’s main source of revenue. Salih said in an interview with Reuters: “We do not expect major problems in 2024, but we need stricter financial discipline in 2025.”
[via PDK] We have Sudani in New York and Al Alak (Governor of the CBI) is openly discussing deleting the zeros- which is kind of a first for him. And we have HCL movement in Iraq.
There is big stuff going on.
Article: ”Tomorrow the launch of employees salary financing”
That came out yesterday so it is today. Today they are getting paid. This is HCL (Hydro Carbon Law) stuff going on.
Article: “Kurdistan deposits nearly 100 Billion dinars of its non-oil revenues in the Baghdad Treasury”
IMO they would not be doing this if they were not done with HCL...Look for an announcement at any moment.
In Iraq: Pay attention to this one. “Al Alaq –We are constantly reviewing the deletion of dinar zeros and there are no restrictions on the balances in America”
That part “No restrictions” is telling us that Iraq is in charge of its own money. In this article when you do a deep dive in it - they are doing exactly what they did in Kuwait with the terminology and phrasing and telling us it’s time to remove those zeros.
In Kuwait they greatly increased the value…they had to turn them in for lower denomination notes or deposit them in banks….
Question: So we have to exchange our 25k notes for lower denoms before we exchange?
