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Iraqi Dinar/Dollar auction (most recent listing) 07-05-16
Currency Auctions Announcement No. 3235
This daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 07-05-2016
The results were as follows:
| DETAILS | NOTES |
| Number of banks | 30 |
| Number of remittance companies | 18 |
| Auction price selling dinar / US$ | 1182 |
| Auction price buying dinar / US$ | —– |
| Amount sold at auction price (US$) | 138,409,694 |
| Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) | —– |
| Total offers for buying (US$) | 138,409,694 |
| Total offers for selling (US$) | —– |
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IMF calls on the Government of Abadi to achieve reforms in exchange for loans
BAGHDAD / News Network – Iraq and the IMF agreed on Saturday to give Iraq a line of credit worth $ 5.34 billion to help it overcome the financial crisis faced after the deterioration of oil prices and the war against Alarhab. ooodh Fund said in a statement, that the Iraqi government will take place in case a loan an initial value of $ 634 million, while it must implement a series of economic reforms to get the rest of the installments of this assistance plan for three years.
The statement quoted Zhou Min, one of the assistant directors of the Fund, as saying: “Iraq’s economy has suffered severely from the double trauma of the organization of the Islamic state and severe attacks decline in oil prices.” Fund expressed in his statement expressed concern about the arrears, especially the “big” accumulated on Baghdad, which is struggling to meet its financial obligations.
The fund was granted in Baghdad in July 2015 a loan of $ 1.24 billion to help the advancement of the public own finances. Under the previous rapid financing tool program.
Iraq is going through a financial crisis due to falling oil prices, which constitutes 90% of the public budget is paid to borrow from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and earned them about $ 15 billion received by over three years…
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BGG (Dinar Guru) – the June/July thing has been wildly over blown AND I think everyone is missing the significance – THEY ARE RE-INTEGRATING with the world now…and are still THE MOST UNDERVALUED CURRENCY there is…”Grossly undervalued” is the terminology used by economists…GOOD FOR US. Abadi is still pushing forward on all kinds of reforms… There is lots of news out confirming and talking about the first installment by the IMF getting sent to Iraq… (…it is being sent “incrementally” – based on their implementation of “reforms”) – ask yourself at what point is “currency reform” on their check list…that is the question you SHOULD BE ASKING. [Any thoughts on the progress of the cabinet reshuffle and the possibility of reaching a quorum to get the important laws passed?] I think that is all soon. Abadi will get that done. [post 2 of 2]
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BGG (Dinar Guru) – […why the delay in revalue of dinar and what he think is coming down the road?] First off – “delay in the revalue of dinar” implies that anyone (here on the web) “knows” when it was supposed to happen – this assumption is flawed. This is not the case – highly unlikely anyone has real “fore-knowledge” of such an event… what do we KNOW? …according to the SIGR report – this was plainly supposed to have been done in 2013 – AT AROUND A BUCK…this is information delivered to the US Congress. I doubt it is inaccurate. why was it delayed? The CoM plainly stated their reasoning. Looking at their comments then and now – it looks like they are rapidly addressing these issues. [post 1 of 2….stay tuned]
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IMF board approves $5.34 billion standby arrangement for Iraq
The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday its executive board approved a new three-year, $5.34 billion standby arrangement for Iraq to support Baghdad’s efforts to deal with lower oil prices and ensure debt sustainability.
The IMF said in a statement the approval will allow for the immediate disbursement of about $634 million under the program. In July 2015, Iraq received about $1.24 billion under the previous rapid financing instrument program.
The IMF said that Iraqi authorities have pledged to maintain their currency peg to the dollar, reduce spending on inefficient capital expenditures whole protecting social spending. It said overhauling the management of public finances will put the government in a better position to combat the Islamic State militant group and cope with lower oil prices.
“The Iraqi economy has been hit hard by the double shock arising from the ISIS attacks and the sharp drop in global oil prices,” IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu said in a statement. “The policies put in place by the authorities to deal with this double shock are appropriate.”
Zhu said that Iraq’s accumulation of large external arrears to international oil companies and domestic arrears in 2015 was “unfortunate” and they should be paid down.
The program also requires Iraq to take significant steps to strengthen anti-corruption laws and to prevent money laundering and counter the financing of terrorism.
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BGG (Dinar Guru) – this bit about the 250 notes and 500 notes…This is NOT SOME QUE to an RV…OR KEY…It is simply the GOI/Baghdad – “romancing” the Kurds – which is good…our 250 and 500 notes will be fine (as are the new and old 25k notes) – ALL GOOD. …The CBI and Parliament have been promising the Kurds new money (which includes them) for YEARS… …THE CENTRAL GOV’T reaching out and including the KURDS…kinda funny it’s just showed up now… I suspect it has been printed and waiting all along.
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Iraq and the International Monetary Fund
Hussein Ahmed Sarhan
Reading in the government’s commitments to the 2016 direction of the Fund under 22 / December / agreement in 2015
Because of the difficult economic conditions experienced by Iraq due to the escalation of the level of military spending after the control of the organization of what is known as (the Islamic state “Daash”) terrorist nearly one-third of the Iraqi state area since June 2014, and the drop in oil prices late the same year, which caused a shock of revenue for the state budget, which led to the promotion of the budget deficit.
For this purpose, the government began her meetings with international financial institutions, particularly the IMF and the World Bank for financial assistance as provided for in the general budget for the 2016 law, which requires him to issue a “letter of intent” and the memorandum of economic and financial policies.
The Iraqi government has issued a letter of intent and memorandum of economic and financial policies in the 22 / December / 2015 describe the policies that the government will implement as part of a program watched by the International Monetary Fund experts Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies MEFP)) as part of the program watched by the International Monetary Fund experts Staff-Monitored program (SMP) government to show to impress and practical manner, then moved to the funding program as soon as possible.
The most important of the contents policy note:
Description of the large correction in fiscal consolidation carried out by the Iraqi government in 2015 and plans to continue to be implemented during 2016.
Reforms in the foreign exchange policy, public financial management and banking supervision, which the Iraqi government is committed to implement during the year 2016.
Moreover, the Iraqi government informed the Fund taking any additional steps may be necessary. The government will consult with the Fund on the approval of any measures of this kind. And identifies policy note recent economic developments and prospects of economic and fiscal policies in 2015 and 2016.
Data political frame-security current political, passing the Iraqi state is very difficult
Politically, the Iraqi state going through a very difficult -walba, particularly inside Iraq and observers abroad stage knows and understands Aavadha- a result of political problems, deferred crises since the political change in 2003, the lack of the necessary legislative frameworks and the resulting lack of vision state-building and attention to all sectarian interests and narrow partisan. To make matters worse, it is the events of last April and the ensuing vacancies in government positions and are not in session, and as a result the crisis of political reform has turned into a crisis in the management of the highest state institutions, it has been deteriorating over to turn into a crisis of the rule, especially with the increasing decline of the legitimacy of the current political system by the case of popular rejection of his lack of understanding of the system based on the nature of the phase-sufficiency in view of their interests, and they have achieved their gains after the change, even become negative political reality reflected on the daily life of citizens, security and economic class basis.
Security, and as well as the decline of the power of legitimate coercion of the state and weak law enforcement institutions in the entire territory of the State of Iraq, the Iraqis are fighting on many fronts to eliminate the organization “Daash” terrorist attacks that put Iraq in a very dangerous situation, and still well in spite of the decline of the organization and crush it big decline; and that the weakness of the security situation in the rest of the areas controlled by the government in central and southern Iraq, and the spread of the manifestations of crime and disorder. As well as the internal forced displacement and sectarian displacement, which produced more than three million displaced people and away from the residence, and nearly 10 million (or nearly one-third of Iraq’s population) to require humanitarian aid.
Also it has been a reliable international community and international institutions on the reform measures, and felt that those in charge of the political system in Iraq, they realized the seriousness of the current stage and began to take the appropriate steps to get out of the dark tunnel and out of danger.
But they ran into the reality of action and passivity and turn it into a complex political crisis, and this point have weak state institutions and a negative performance.
It is important that in this situation, proceeded Iraqi government – As part of its efforts to reduce the state budget deficit for 2016 and head to external borrowing -aly provide a policy paper and a letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund as a first stage to enter into a credit point, and this ranks on Iraq
-If what has been move toward implementation of the agreement with international financial institutions, particularly the IMF and World Bank Aldoliyn- obligations, particularly the Iraqi government is negotiating with these institutions and with assistance from the US side to engage in credit and loan collection phase.
And the nature of these obligations is in several respects:
Political-Security –
Economic policies –
The obligations of the availability of legislative frameworks that support these economic policies, such as amending the Investment Law read in the economic indicators and commitments contained in the further economic and financial policies.
Economic activity –
The decline in economic activity is oil contraction 8% for 2015 due to lower capital spending after the decline in oil revenues, after he saw a contraction boat of 9% during the year 2014.
In 2016, growth is expected to rise in the gross domestic product to a rate (10.6%) due to the expected increase in production oil ratio (20%) with the survival of gross domestic product, the non-oil steady.
The official reserves of foreign currency
due to lower oil prices, is expected to shift the current account balance from a surplus of 1% of GDP in 2014 to a deficit of 6% of gross domestic product in the year 2016 will total deficit up to $ 11 billion in 2016, and this the expectation is based on the survival of the imposition of oil prices below US $ 40 per barrel.
This deficit will be financed At large part Menh- by withdrawing large sums of official reserves of foreign currency, and this will reduce the total reserves of $ 67 billion in 2014 to $ 43 billion (7 months) of the year 2016. But the recent rise in oil prices and exceed the threshold of 45 dollars and complete liberation of the territory controlled by “Daash” and reduced military spending, may reduce the decline in reserve.
Therefore, the fund is expected to resume reserves to rise in the year 2017 onwards of $ 48 billion (7 months) from the year 2017 to 88 billion dollars (10 months) of the year 2020, due to the rise in oil prices.
The budget deficit
The decline in oil prices led to a significant deterioration in the financial position of the Fund that is expected deficit in budget year 2016 to 10% of gross domestic product subject to the adoption of the following measures:
A significant reduction in the overall financial balance of the first non-oil [ 1], ie about 12% of the total non-oil GDP (24 trillion Iraqi dinars, or $ 20 billion), and is expected to be completed by the biggest part of it by the end of 2015. this commitment was met Ptozm political situation and forestry stagnant economic activity.
A large increase in domestic funding as well as external financing in the short term in line with the sustainability of debt sustainability over the medium term. To mitigate the impact of fiscal adjustment on the population and the refugees, the government will protect social spending (ie spending on health and education transfers that support social protection network and internally displaced persons and refugees).
Public finance program in 2016
December / 2015 provided the Iraqi government to parliament amendments to the draft budget submitted by the 18 / October 2015, and was aimed at a deficit of initial non-oil fiscal reduce the 77 trillion Iraqi dinars (56% of GDP the total non-oil), and it will be achieved through the implementation of the government to the following procedures:
– collect no less than 8.8 trillion Iraqi dinars (6.5% of the GDP of non-oil) in revenue is oil, and includes (1) trillion Iraqi dinars increase taxes and wages.
– Determine the initial spending of non-oil at $ 86 trillion dinars (63% of gross domestic product, the non-oil), and will once again achieve this emphasis in the initial spending of non-oil mostly on a higher level Bqil of the low level of 2015 by the postponement of investment projects non-oil priority at least for subsequent years.
We believe that to walk in this direction and delivery of this measure will reflect negatively on the overall production activity, and therefore has to be thinking about reducing the unnecessary expenditure of state institutions and rationing spending and this will save big money.
– It is for the first non-oil deficit in public finances financing, and investment spending of oil and debt service, the government will resort to oil revenue (73 trillion dinars), and domestic financing (20 trillion dinars), and external funding (four trillion dinars).
– Will be local funding to cover (20 trillion dinars) through the issuance of remittances treasury, which are re-financed through commercial banks up to (7 trillion dinars) in the discount window at the Central Bank of Iraq, and the issuance of national bonds to the public of $ (5 trillion dinars), reduced government in the banking sector deposits amounting to (four trillion dinars).
– The external financing (4 trillion dinars) will be funded through:
(a) the planned release of its Eurobonds ($ 2 billion),
(b) the Islamic Development Bank loans ($ 500 million)
(c)- project loans from the World Bank ($ 50 billion)
(d)- a loan from the Japanese international cooperation Agency JICA (502 million dollars),
(c) Italy ($ 40 million)
That the government does not resort to the accumulation of arrears as a way to finance the deficit and comply with the ceiling zero for external arrears, and that the government inventory of domestic arrears (domestic debt) to ensure uncle accumulation and make payments if done from audited as required.
Iraq’s obligations on public finances
In order to strengthen fiscal discipline, the government will action the following:
– The Ministry of Finance to submit a new draft of the law of financial management according to observations Monetary Fund and the World Bank which was submitted to the State Council. It should be noted that the influential Financial Management Act is a financial management and public debt No. 95 Act of 2004
– so far the government by including the amount of 2.4 trillion Iraqi dinars to repay domestic arrears in the 2016 budget, after the government set domestic arrears worth 7.3 trillion dinars including 5 trillion dinars accumulated in 2015. The government will continue to conduct a survey and audit and pay domestic arrears, and will be the Ministry of planning as a first step, to be completed in February 2016.
– design, implementation and technical assistance from the international Monetary Fund, a system for monitoring compliance with the implementation of the budget is based on a financial plan a comprehensive implementation of the budget.
– An integrated information system for financial management design (IFMIS) and implemented with the help of the World Bank. As a first step to adopt by the end of April 2016 map detailing the basic evidence, including account functional requirements and keep track of expenses over several years and the deportation of resources from one year to another and administration advances and cash management arrangements.
– Reform of the public investment management (PIM) with the help of the World Bank. In fulfillment of this commitment, the Prime Minister issued a decree on October 18, 2015 ratified whereby a part of the process of public investment management based on World Bank recommendations, including this context, investment selection and implementation and subsequent evaluation, that the Ministry of Planning and creation of a unit to manage public investment to sort out projects based on their feasibility, and to establish and manage an integrated bank studies for projects (IBP) to run as a branch of the Iraq development system (IDMS).
[2] – the need to apply the existing procedures for financial disclosure for senior officials in order to improve governance and strengthen anti-corruption efforts, and continues Authority integrity publish the names of those who do not submit financial disclosure.
Commitments regarding banking supervision
About 89% of the banking system’s assets are grouped at the three government banks of (7), including banks and one Islamic, and these banks are (Mesopotamia, Al-Rasheed, the Iraqi Trade Bank).
– The government will re-structuring bank Rafidain and Rasheed. As the first step will be the Ministry of Finance at the end of February 2016 contracted with international auditors to audit the financial statements for the last two banks, in cooperation with the Executive Committee for restructuring these two private banks and the World Bank.
And by the central bank, it will continue to implement reforms to strengthen the stability of the banking sector in Iraq measures, namely:
– start using the system of international bank account number (IBAN) in Iraq.
Raising the capital requirement of banks to 250 billion dinars, equivalent to 214 million dollars. It has all the private banks of (32), to raise its capital to this level except for one bank.
– Hiring a consultant to help the Iraqi Central Bank in enhancing the special precautionary measures liquidity and capital adequacy ratio.
– A review of precautionary measures by the Central Bank of Iraq with the help of regional technical assistance center for the Middle East (METAC) of the International Monetary Fund.
– Prepare for the deposit insurance system provides for the establishment of a public institution licensed by the Central Bank of Iraq, and made available to the banks an opportunity to contribute to the capital of this institution.
– Issuing bank law for financial institutions that offer Islamic services.
Follow-up Program
The program will be a review of quarterly and will be quantitative targets regarding:
– the balance of the first non-oil (ie, the difference between the non-oil revenues and expenses preliminary non-oil excluding interest)
– the balance of net domestic assets of the Central Bank
– foreign exchange reserves with the Central Bank
– Social spending and the lack of new external arrears starting from the month of December 2015
And it will determine each review of the program a number of benchmarking structural in necessary for the success of the program areas, and must be completed the first review by the end of the month of May 2016. the government plans to submit to impress under this program, which watched by the international Monetary Fund experts to move to a possible financial agreement with the IMF as soon as possible.
The table below contains the contents of the review, which is supposed to be completed by the end of last month:
Case: It has been met: Maintaining macroeconomic(s):
Cabinet approval of the amendments to the draft budget for 2016 and forwarded to the parliament so that they are in line with the macro-economic framework that was agreed upon in accordance with the program which is watched by experts of the Fund.
Enhance cash management : The first review
The completion of the Ministry of Planning survey has arrears on domestic investment spending (the amount of arrears, the identity of the creditor, invoice, identification of the goods and services offered, the credit line in the budget, which authorizes such spending)
Enhance cash management : The first review
Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank is preparing a list of all bank accounts under the control of the Ministry of Finance and all spending units and sub-units of spending in the federal government with the central bank and state-owned banks. The details should include the assets until December 2015 and account number and title, location and purpose and who is responsible and Mufdan sign.
Enhance the stability of the financial sector: The first review
The appointment of one or more international auditor to audit the financial statements for the last bank Rafidain and Rasheed, and according to international standards.
Strengthen public financial management: The second review
Adoption of the Minister of Finance draft finance law administration in line with the comments made by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank about the latest draft law, which has been submitted to the State Council.
Conclusion:
We must explain how positive the above commitments on the Iraqi situation. In this regard it should be recalled that Iraq -as Zkrna- going through a very difficult economic conditions, and increased the severity of the security situation and the negative fighter organization “Daash” terrorist on a broad front from its territory due to increased spending on armaments and the requirements of the fight, this is the part.
On the other hand, the Iraqi economy is suffering from structural crisis – marovh manifestations of Ba- over the decades reflected negatively on the overall economic activity and appeared evident in the last two years in a financial liquidity crisis. Therefore, it calls for economic reform and a broad program in accordance with the economic philosophy of the state set by the Constitution in accordance with the material (24, 25.26).
So we believe that the above commitments constitute an important beginning to benefit from international expertise in this area and employment in line with the development of the State of Iraq for the time being, given that the above commitments would result in a transition to a financial agreement with the Fund, and this Aaakhlu of interest in financing part of the Gr budget general state of 2016. we believe that the investment turns to its side, ie are employed to obtain loans -hal Alleha- to increase capital expenditures to achieve two goals: first, to move economic activity, II: improving infrastructure mode to be reflected positively on overall economic activity.
Euphrates Center for Development and Strategic Studies / 2004- Ⓒ 2016 www.fcdrs.com
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| CURRENCY | CODE | SELL | BUY |
| US dollar | USD | 1182.000 | 1180.000 |
| Euro | EUR | 1316.157 | 1315.499 |
| British pound | GBP | 1570.642 | 1569.856 |
| Canadian dollar | CAD | —– | —– |
| Swiss franc | CHF | 1213.179 | 1212.572 |
| Swedish krona | SEK | 139.541 | 139.472 |
| Norwegian krone | NOK | 141.560 | 141.489 |
| Danish krone | DKK | 176.951 | 176.863 |
| Japanese yen | JPY | 11.487 | 11.481 |
| Special Drawing Rights |
SDR | 1650.025 | 1649.200 |