Sandy Ingram – Dinar Guru  The World Bank is working with the Iraqi Finance Minister to implement banking reform as quickly as possible…things are happening fast.

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Pimpy – Dinar Guru  There are a ton of reforms especially in the banking sector.  They’re getting there but they’re not 100% there yet as far as confidence in the currency.  Nobody has confidence in it besides those who are invested in it.  It’s not that they have confidence in Iraqi dinar, they’re hoping there’s a big difference…There’s years and years of history shows you Iraq constantly screws up and ends up back on square one.  You can’t blame people for being negative. IMO Iraq has taken all the steps necessary to get there but they’re not there yet.  Give it time…

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Kaperoni – Dinar Guru   It…is preposterous to think that you’re going to walk into a bank and exchange Iraqi dinar for US cash. It is a fact that most Emerging Market countries are very volatile, banks by nature are very conservative.  Not happening…Market makers, ECNs or established financial institutions would make more sense to manage incremental gains.

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  If they were going to have a budget based off the exchange rate of 1310 why would you be keeping it close to your chest so long?  Why would you be waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting?  You wouldn’t. 

Paulette – Dinar Guru  If Iraq is acceding Friday, can you explain why they have not yet completed the required steps…? The way the WTO has notified the World to date, the only two countries that have completed all of the [steps] is COMOROS and Timor-Leste.  At least 11 other countries are further along than Iraq.  Granted, Saudi Arabia and the US have recently said they will help Iraq “fast-track”, however the requirements must be fulfilled.  Sudani appears to be Full Steam ahead.  We should all be excited as whether now, days from now, weeks from now or even Months, the next great step in this ride is coming!

Mountain Goat – Dinar Guru  …my most recent conversation with my CBI contact on Saturday…Most of the talk was all about the parallel market again and the final push to stabilize it…I was told this was the holdup for the start of the Project to Delete the Zeros and the formal education of the process, which was already supposed to begin in April. I was told that the committee has already released some educational materials on the future float and so we witnessed this information last week come out. 

Kaperoni – Dinar Guru  Over the last few weeks Iraq is perpetuating that they are now moving forward with diversifying their economy in opening their financial system to the world. We will have to wait and see if they have made the necessary steps  for those results.

Fnu Lnu – Dinar Guru  I have heard repeatedly, ad nauseam, about bank redemption centers being trained to recognize counterfeit Dinar…There is no such training being done…PERIOD! …De La Rue provides…computerized equipment that will authenticate and verify banknotes for 140 different countries. No human eye can be trained to see the hidden security  substrate and embedded features…One merely needs to be able to feed currency into a machine and it will do the rest…The banks  have been using this machinery for years and have been well trained to do so. There is NO training going on.

BGG ~ While the first half of this post may well be true (likely as not), I beg to differ on the last half. It’s COMPLETELY INACCURATE (and IGNORANT of the facts). There is NO SUCH THING AS AN AUTOMATED AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR THE IQD (per the De La Rue engineers – PERIOD). They don’t own that division anymore. It’s a group well known in the US as Cash Systems. Look it up.

Pimpy – Dinar Guru  You guys got to be careful.  When everybody’s like, ‘Oh, yeah we want the deletion of the zeros’.   Oh no you don’t.  No you don’t…You’re all cheering it on.  I was like no, don’t cheer it on.  That’s not a good thing for us as investors.  I know they’re out there swearing up and down that it’s off the exchange rate but it’s not.  The zeros come off the  currency. 

Clare – Dinar Guru  Article:  “After a break of more than 9 years.. the resumption of a government trade meeting between Iraq and America“

Samson – Dinar Guru  Article:  “After a break of more than 9 years…the resumption of a government trade meeting between Iraq and America“

Paulette – Dinar Guru   Community Comment: “Iraq on May 9 ascends to FULL membership in the WTO”   I hope you are correct regarding the WTO.  However, the documentable facts and articles regarding this issue would say otherwise.  Don’t misunderstand, the documentable facts and articles are EXTREMELY positive.  Iraq, under Sudani appears to be serious about becoming WTO members, opening the country to International trade, moving from a Rentier Economy to a Market Economy and finally implementing the Delete the Zeros Project.  Everyone should be excited even if it takes months more to accomplish.

Mountain Goat – Dinar Guru   Can you see just how close Iraq is to fulling Al-Sudani’s promise of making the dinar a proud national currency once again. Also remember too that he did say it “was” valued over a dollar already…

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  People are really excited because the data we provide supports that Iraq is having things ready to go and done.

Pimpy – Dinar Guru  What’s going to happen to the Iraqi dinar?  Once it reaches an acceptable rate by foreign currency holders such as us, then you’re going to flood the market with Iraqi dinars aren’t you?  Yes you will.  If it gets anywhere near $0.25 per dinar, $0.50, a dollar, anywhere near there, people are going to start cashing Iraqi dinar in right away and you’re going to flood the market because now there’s going to be more dinars out there in the market flooding them, causing the value of the Iraqi dinar to drop.  So IMO Iraq is not currently ready to have a floating IQD.

Dallasdude – Dinar Guru  ..as stated 1st round of task complete, second round of task is still a work in progress, fully expect the ninth to come and go with Iraq still on the outside looking in, good thing is they are determined to be a member and led by Sudani will get there eventually.

Samson – Dinar Guru  Article: “Al-Sudani: Iraq is moving today to the stage of revitalizing the economy and consolidating sovereignty”

Yada – Dinar Guru   …the news is outstanding regarding the progress of the Council of ministers having approved the budget schedules.   What is important…the rates were set with the US visit, council of ministers approved or amended the rates…all before Parliament sees it, WE are about to see the rates that the Parliament will see at the same time.  All by design to keep them from interfering…Im expecting this evening into the morning to seeing our expected end. The world waits the release and I believe it is upon us.

Kaperoni – Dinar Guru   It is critical to understand that if the Central Bank of Iraq plans to end the auctions by the end of the year there must be a new mechanism in place or there would be no method to maintain stability of the dinar.  So for the central bank to announce that they plan to end the auctions they are in essence announcing, that they plan to float the dinar. Floating the dinar provides the new tools for the central bank to maintain stability.  Therefore, this announcement to end the auctions confirms (despite what some may say), Iraq will float their currency

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  Article: “Iraqi Council of Ministers approves the 2024 budget schedules”  The next step would be to take those schedules and deliver them to the House of Representatives.  If we see that, that’s going to be powerful because everybody’s gonna be biting their nails because it could very well suggest something could happen prior to that happening.  It’s a nail biter…

Yada – Dinar Guru  …this process moved beyond the needs of just Iraq, it had move to the benefits of the 84 countries with contracts with Iraq. The rest of the central banks with dinar in their foreign reserves.  And the non-revenue income that will decrease Iraq dependence on oil from 95% do about 55%.  Just one rate adjustment will have this impact.

Kaperoni – Dinar Guru  Question:  “So would the CBI set the initial float rate?“ When a country makes a determination to float their currency, the exchange rate is whatever the official rate is at that time.  Supply and demand then takes over from there.

Pimpy – Dinar Guru If  the dinar were to go free floating that means the rate it will adopt is going to be the one that we see on the parallel market…

Paulette – Dinar Guru   Community Comment:  “On May 9th it has been announced that Iraq will become a FULL member of the WTO.”  I have not seen where Iraq has participated in the Third Round of negotiations…It took Iraq since 2004 to complete everything assigned in the First Round of negotiations.  It was only earlier this year that they completed those requirements.  They were given tasks in the Second Rd of Negotiations which they are in process of completing.  They may be given tasks in the Third Rd of Negotiations also.  The Third Rd is scheduled for “mid-year”.  I believe the only countries that have completed everything for the May 9th Ascension Ceremony are Comoros and East Timor….

Kaperoni – Dinar Guru   Article:  “Al-Rayes: The path of development is the first gateway to sustainable economic advancement”  If and when the Iraqi dinar begins to float supply and demand based on Iraq’s economic success will take over.  Only with the success and growth of Iraq’s own economy can the dinar go up in value. How fast and the pace are determined by those factors.

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  Article: “Specialist: Floating the dinar is economic suicide”  Them bringing up exchange regimes obviously…they’re going to do something because why talk about it if it’s not going to change.  You don’t.

Mountain Goat – Dinar Guru    Article:  IRAQ TALKS ABOUT PRODUCING ONE MILLION LITERS OF GASOLINE DAILY   Quote:  “increase refining capacity production rates and improve production in national refineries to reach self-sufficiency and gradually shift to exporting them to global markets…”  Well…well…its about time that Iraq got these refineries up and running. Lots of articles about this effort over the last ten years. Did I hear of another export product here?

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  Non-oil revenues…Iraq has the largest sulfur deposit in the world.  They can tap into that.  It’s going to be part of their non-oil revenues.  The amount of natural resources Iraq has is off the charts.  Anything that suggests they can’t afford to do what they’re going to do and go to a market economy I think is highly mistaken.