{"id":30902,"date":"2026-01-05T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=30902"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:35:48","slug":"sandy-ingram-310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=30902","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Ingram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #c23b3b;\">Sandy Ingram &#8211; Dinar Guru <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0For the longest we have been talking about banking reform in Iraq.\u00a0 Most of us believed, I\u00a0know I did, that all it took was just updating to high-tech components to the Iraqi banking system.\u00a0 Turns out not only was I\u00a0incorrect in that belief but many other people were as well.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><u>The bottom line is Islamic banking is very very different than\u00a0western banking.<\/u>..Those differences have subtly swept under the rug.\u00a0 The western news has not talked about it<\/strong>&#8230;<em>Why is Iraqi\u00a0banking system taking so long to integrate with the global banking infrastructure?\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<strong><u>Even US bankers did not offer up this\u00a0information as a news item&#8230;They enjoy keeping us in the dark<\/u>.<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #6555c2;\">[Stay tuned over the next couple of days as Sandy unpacks the\u00a0differences between Western and Islamic banking and how this impacts the Iraqi dinar exchange rate.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandy Ingram &#8211; Dinar Guru \u00a0For the longest we have been talking about banking reform in Iraq.\u00a0 Most of us believed, I\u00a0know I did, that all it took was just updating to high-tech components to the Iraqi banking system.\u00a0 Turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=30902\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gMgY-82q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30903,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902\/revisions\/30903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}