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Podcast: My FX Buddies
Episode: Iraqi Dinar: IBBC issues Major New Paper on De-Dollarisation of Iraq
Description: Iraqi Dinar: IBBC issues Major New Paper on De-Dollarisation of Iraq
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This revaluation of the dinar combined with restrictions on dollar transactions has also seriously
injured private sector businesses that were engaged in exporting. Previously, many contracts
between international firms such as oil companies and their Iraqi employees and suppliers were
denominated and often paid in dollars. Iraqi employees and firms could then convert these
dollars into dinars at the parallel rate – currently about 1,500 ID/$. However, beginning is 2024,
the GoI required, that regardless of the currency specified in contracts, pa...