Government advisor: New monetary reinforcement mechanism will maintain fixed exchange rate of 1,320 dinars per $100
Government advisor: New monetary reinforcement mechanism will maintain fixed exchange rate of 1,320 dinars per $100
1-3-2025
The financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Mohammed Saleh, confirmed today, Friday, that the Central Bank has adopted the monetary reinforcement mechanism to feed the national banks’ requests for foreign currency, indicating that the monetary reinforcement mechanism will maintain financial stability in the country.
Saleh said, according to the official agency, that “the function of the Central Bank will continue to move in two directions: the first is to meet the needs of national banks for foreign currency with their correspondents, which confirms that the new monetary reinforcement mechanism will work to provide monetary stability on the part of the monetary authority in the two issues of continuing the monetary sterilization policy that is concerned with controlling the levels of local liquidity by exchanging foreign currency for the dinar,” noting that “the new monetary reinforcement mechanism will maintain a fixed exchange rate of 1,320 dinars for every 100 dollars, which will enable the Central Bank to achieve stability in the external value of the Iraqi dinar by controlling the growth in the money supply within the operational objectives of monetary policy through what is called the monetary transmission mechanism to achieve intermediate or real long-term objectives in achieving stability in the general price level or reducing the growth in inflation rates, and this comes in conjunction with the stability of the exchange rate and the growth of the money supply to achieve stability in the general price level.”
Saleh added that “the second trend is to provide foreign currency to correspondents of national banks in order to facilitate the stability of the real supply of basic goods and services flowing into the domestic market with high fluidity, and to make compliance control of foreign currency transactions on two levels: national through the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Funds Office, and external through the role of correspondent banks that undertake the task of auditing compliance issues.”
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