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Samson » July 3rd, 2019
The Association of Banks holds a workshop on risk management and compliance with 100 trainees
3rd July 2019
On Wednesday, the Association of Iraqi Private Banks held a workshop for 100 trainees on the benefits of digital transformation for internal audit, risk management and compliance activities
The workshop was opened at the headquarters of the Association in the capital Baghdad and attended by about 100 trainees of private and government employees, and lasts for one day
The workshop dealt with a comprehensive discussion on the scientific perspective of digital transformation and its benefits on the activities of internal audit in banks, risk management and compliance LINK
Toyvp » July 3rd, 2019
REST IN PEACE LEE IACOCCA 94 YEARS OLD
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2019/07/02/lee-iacocca-auto-industry-leader-dead-at-94/23761793/
Samson » July 3rd, 2019
Labor will launch a new batch of full-time salary from Sunday
3rd July, 2019
Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Bassem Abdul Zaman announced on Wednesday the completion of procedures for the launch of a new batch of full-time salary in Baghdad and the provinces starting on Sunday.
Abdul-Zaman said in a statement received by "Al-Ghad Press", a copy of it, that "the grant of salary will be electronically to the beneficiaries of the salary of the full-time within the province of Baghdad holders of the MasterCard card issued by the Rafidain and Rashid."
He added that "beneficiaries who have not been issued a master card will be disbursed manually at the Iraqi-Korean Center of the Ministry according to meals will be published later and in terms of sections of the Commission in the provinces will be according to the mechanism determined by the department in each province," noting that "the salary is the maturity of three months Is Nissan, May and June of 510 thousand dinars per beneficiary."
For his part, the Administrative Deputy Chairman of the Commission Ali Jafar al-Helu said that "the receipt of manual salary for those who have not issued a card MasterCard is in the presence of the appointed only without the need to review the disabled accompanied with the original documents of the parties appointed and disabled."
"The names will be announced by hand payment in the form of meals through the website and the official pages of the Ministry and the official body of the page, the rest of the provinces will take each section to announce the names of beneficiaries according to the mechanism that suits him." LINK
Deputy: The volume of Iraqi debt is more than 133 billion dollars
3rd July, 2019
MP Mahmoud al-Kaabi, on Wednesday, that the volume of Iraqi debt is more than 133 billion dollars, noting that Iraq pays 10.8 trillion dinars.
Al-Kaabi said in an interview with Alsumaria News that "the report of the Parliamentary Finance Committee showed that the volume of debt owed by Iraq amounted to 133 billion and 700 million dollars," noting that "the budget showed that Iraq pays 10.8 trillion dinars due to debt and interest of 4.5 trillion dinars because of these debts" He said.
"We have asked the Department of Public Debt at the Ministry of Finance mechanism to pay these debts and their schedule and interest and the size of internal and external debt, but the Department refrained from that," adding that "will be approached by the Ministry of Finance on this and we await response to all our concerns." Al-Kaabi said that "there are suspicions that require us to investigate the matter," stressing that "we will inform the people on all the results, whether negative or positive."
The debt of Iraq amounted to nearly 120 billion dollars in 2003, before the debt settlement with some countries by paying the principal only without interest, in cooperation with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.
In 2014, Iraq was hit by a financial crisis with a third of its territory out of government control, plus high operating costs, making it resort to external and domestic borrowing to fill its budget deficit and cover war costs. LINK
EU leaders choose Lagarde to head the central bank
3rd July, 2019
EU leaders agreed to elect French President Christine Lagarde as president of the European Central Bank and reached an agreement to fill four other top positions in the bloc after lengthy talks that revealed deep divisions
The three-day summit negotiations, which sometimes appeared to be about tocollapse, ended with an agreement that should now be passed by the European Parliament but met with immediate opposition from the Socialists and Greens bloc in the Strasbourg-based parliament
The leaders hope that the choice of two women, Lagarde and German DefenseMinister Ursula Vaud de Lippen, for two of the highest-level decision-making positions in the EU for the first time will be a positive message and repair the damage caused by the summit
Under the leaders' agreement, Vaud der Lien, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is the president of the European Commission, the executive arm of the Union, replacing Jean-Claude Juncker
Lagarde is one of France's first women finance ministers and has headed the IMFsince 2011 and is one of the strongest supporters of women's empowerment, though she has no direct experience in monetary policy
Lagarde's most important task, which previously denied any interest in holding the post, would be to revive the euro-zone economy
"Christine Lagarde will be ... an excellent president of the European Central Bank," said European Council President Donald Tusk. I am sure she will be a very independent president LINK
Iobey777 » July 3rd, 2019
Another Big BOOM!!!! IMO!!!
Samson » July 3rd, 2019
Iraq commits to further Advancing the Digital Economy
2nd July, 2019
Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon have committed to digitally transform their countries, discussing their roadmaps to support the Mashreq region’s integration into the rapidly evolving global digital economy.
The commitments came on the first day of the landmark, high-level forum on Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship Development in Mashreq, which was hosted by the Government of Jordan and organized jointly with the World Bank Group.
The three governments had identified the challenges and solutions that would allow Mashreq countries to realize more gains to their economies and societies. Digitalization is shaping the present and future of economic activities as it brings about higher productivity, efficiencies and quicker inclusion of lagging economic and social groups, such as women and youth.
Mobile and digital solutions are contributing to facilitating greater financial inclusion. E-commerce and other digital applications are being leveraged to promote entrepreneurship,including the empowerment of women as entrepreneurs, and digital solutions are being sought to improve access to learning resources in an easier and less expensive way.
The Mobile Gender Report for 2018 lists a gender gap in mobile ownership among women in the region which can reach up to 20%. while this gap is only 2% in countries like Egypt or Turkey. Bringing this gap to less than 4% everywhere in the Mashreq would bring income opportunities for women in the region. Broadband access is estimated to increase employment among married women by as much as 4% in high income economies.
Broadly speaking, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon face similar obstacles to their quest to transform Mashreq into a regional hub for IT and Business Process Outsourcing. Policymakers, international and regional businesses, startups and investors all convened at the King Hussein Business Park to enrich the discussion with their expertise and experience on how to push this agenda forward.
The digital roadmaps were presented by the three ministers holding the Information Technology portfolio in their respective countries. World Bank Group committed to supporting these countries achieve their goals with specific focus on increasing broadband access, establishing cashless payment systems and bridging the gender gap in mobile usage.
Iraq
The Government of Iraq (GOI) is committed to further advancing the digital economy and aims to ensure affordable access to high speed internet, by doubling access to broadband to 54% in 2021 and 90% by 2030, achieving 100% broadband network coverage, establishing a conducive regulatory and policy framework for digital payments, developing interoperable digital payments infrastructure, and striving towards 100% financial access.
The GOI is also committed to delivering digital government services and ensuring highest standards of cybersecurity and data privacy to boost consumer trust. The GOI is also keen to ensure that education and training programs meet current and future job market skills needs.
Jordan
The Government of Jordan (GOJ) is committed to advancing the digital economy as strategic growth sector for the Kingdom. On digital infrastructure, the GOJ commits to further developing access to internet broadband to reach 100% penetration rate by 2021. As part of that, the GOJ is opening the National Broadband Network (7,000 kilometers of fiber) for Public Private Partnership, allowing affordable fiber broadband to 1.3 million households around Jordan. On digital payments, the GOJ commits to increasing country-level cashless payments from 33 to 50% by 2020 and to digitizing 80% of government to citizens payments by 2021. On developing digital skills, the GOJ will launch a national skills development initiative to train 35,000 people on the 21st century skills and mainstreaming digital skills in public schools to train 300 thousands by 2022. To enable a friendly business environment for entrepreneurs, the GOJ is committed to launching a regulatory reform process in 2019, following a participatory approach with ecosystem representatives. To complete automation of Government services, the GOJ commits to automate key services by 2021. Building on the recent transformations of the Ministry of ICT to Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, the GOJ will launch its digital transformation action plan in partnership with the ecosystem by end of 2019.
Lebanon
The Government of Lebanon (GOL) is committed to building a Digital Nation and to transform Lebanon into a regional technology and innovation hub. The GOL is in the process of finalizing its digital transformation plan and aims to double the knowledge economy’s contribution to GDP and double the employment in this sector by 2025. To achieve this, the GOL plans to: (i) reach 100% broadband penetration rate by end of 2021; (ii) develop and execute the digital transformation of the public sector and offer citizens a fully digitized journey across all government services, with 500,000 users signed up to the government digital platform by end of 2021; (iii) provide a supportive regulatory framework to help grow the Fintech industry and facilitate digital payments, launch a new national digital currency by the end of 2020, and launch an Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) to improve financing for private sector activities in 2020; (iv) leverage its pool of skilled and entrepreneurial talent in Lebanon and abroad to build a digital economy focused on innovation and private initiative, increase the number of start-ups fivefold and double yearly venture capital funding by 2025; and (v) address the existing skills gap by preparing the youth for the global, digital jobs of the future through launching a national training academy by 2021.
The World Bank commits to support Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan in achieving their visions and plans for digital transformation by providing the necessary resources and instruments. The World Bank will work closely with the Governments, private sector, academia and civil society to maximize the impact of digitization and reap the digital dividends for their societies.
This support will include: (i) pursuing plans to ensure affordable access to high-speed internet and facilitate investment in broadband; (ii) delivering digital government services and improving access to data, while ensuring the highest standards of cybersecurity and data privacy; (iii) developing a modern digital payment infrastructure; (iv) scaling up digital entrepreneurship; and (v) ensuring education and training programs meet current and future skills needs.
More details, including a video of the procedings, can be found here. LINK
Source: Dinar Recaps
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______________________________________________________
All articles, videos, and images posted on Dinar Chronicles were submitted by readers and/or handpicked by the site itself for informational and/or entertainment purposes.
Dinar Chronicles is not a registered investment adviser, broker dealer, banker or currency dealer and as such, no information on the website should be construed as investment advice. We do not support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any content or communications posted on this site. Information posted on this site may or may not be fictitious. We do not intend to and are not providing financial, legal, tax, political or any other advice to readers of this website.
Copyright © 2019 Dinar Chronicles
Samson » July 3rd, 2019
The Association of Banks holds a workshop on risk management and compliance with 100 trainees
3rd July 2019
On Wednesday, the Association of Iraqi Private Banks held a workshop for 100 trainees on the benefits of digital transformation for internal audit, risk management and compliance activities
The workshop was opened at the headquarters of the Association in the capital Baghdad and attended by about 100 trainees of private and government employees, and lasts for one day
The workshop dealt with a comprehensive discussion on the scientific perspective of digital transformation and its benefits on the activities of internal audit in banks, risk management and compliance LINK
Toyvp » July 3rd, 2019
REST IN PEACE LEE IACOCCA 94 YEARS OLD
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2019/07/02/lee-iacocca-auto-industry-leader-dead-at-94/23761793/
Samson » July 3rd, 2019
Labor will launch a new batch of full-time salary from Sunday
3rd July, 2019
Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Bassem Abdul Zaman announced on Wednesday the completion of procedures for the launch of a new batch of full-time salary in Baghdad and the provinces starting on Sunday.
Abdul-Zaman said in a statement received by "Al-Ghad Press", a copy of it, that "the grant of salary will be electronically to the beneficiaries of the salary of the full-time within the province of Baghdad holders of the MasterCard card issued by the Rafidain and Rashid."
He added that "beneficiaries who have not been issued a master card will be disbursed manually at the Iraqi-Korean Center of the Ministry according to meals will be published later and in terms of sections of the Commission in the provinces will be according to the mechanism determined by the department in each province," noting that "the salary is the maturity of three months Is Nissan, May and June of 510 thousand dinars per beneficiary."
For his part, the Administrative Deputy Chairman of the Commission Ali Jafar al-Helu said that "the receipt of manual salary for those who have not issued a card MasterCard is in the presence of the appointed only without the need to review the disabled accompanied with the original documents of the parties appointed and disabled."
"The names will be announced by hand payment in the form of meals through the website and the official pages of the Ministry and the official body of the page, the rest of the provinces will take each section to announce the names of beneficiaries according to the mechanism that suits him." LINK
Deputy: The volume of Iraqi debt is more than 133 billion dollars
3rd July, 2019
MP Mahmoud al-Kaabi, on Wednesday, that the volume of Iraqi debt is more than 133 billion dollars, noting that Iraq pays 10.8 trillion dinars.
Al-Kaabi said in an interview with Alsumaria News that "the report of the Parliamentary Finance Committee showed that the volume of debt owed by Iraq amounted to 133 billion and 700 million dollars," noting that "the budget showed that Iraq pays 10.8 trillion dinars due to debt and interest of 4.5 trillion dinars because of these debts" He said.
"We have asked the Department of Public Debt at the Ministry of Finance mechanism to pay these debts and their schedule and interest and the size of internal and external debt, but the Department refrained from that," adding that "will be approached by the Ministry of Finance on this and we await response to all our concerns." Al-Kaabi said that "there are suspicions that require us to investigate the matter," stressing that "we will inform the people on all the results, whether negative or positive."
The debt of Iraq amounted to nearly 120 billion dollars in 2003, before the debt settlement with some countries by paying the principal only without interest, in cooperation with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.
In 2014, Iraq was hit by a financial crisis with a third of its territory out of government control, plus high operating costs, making it resort to external and domestic borrowing to fill its budget deficit and cover war costs. LINK
EU leaders choose Lagarde to head the central bank
3rd July, 2019
EU leaders agreed to elect French President Christine Lagarde as president of the European Central Bank and reached an agreement to fill four other top positions in the bloc after lengthy talks that revealed deep divisions
The three-day summit negotiations, which sometimes appeared to be about tocollapse, ended with an agreement that should now be passed by the European Parliament but met with immediate opposition from the Socialists and Greens bloc in the Strasbourg-based parliament
The leaders hope that the choice of two women, Lagarde and German DefenseMinister Ursula Vaud de Lippen, for two of the highest-level decision-making positions in the EU for the first time will be a positive message and repair the damage caused by the summit
Under the leaders' agreement, Vaud der Lien, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is the president of the European Commission, the executive arm of the Union, replacing Jean-Claude Juncker
Lagarde is one of France's first women finance ministers and has headed the IMFsince 2011 and is one of the strongest supporters of women's empowerment, though she has no direct experience in monetary policy
Lagarde's most important task, which previously denied any interest in holding the post, would be to revive the euro-zone economy
"Christine Lagarde will be ... an excellent president of the European Central Bank," said European Council President Donald Tusk. I am sure she will be a very independent president LINK
Iobey777 » July 3rd, 2019
Another Big BOOM!!!! IMO!!!
Samson » July 3rd, 2019
Iraq commits to further Advancing the Digital Economy
2nd July, 2019
Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon have committed to digitally transform their countries, discussing their roadmaps to support the Mashreq region’s integration into the rapidly evolving global digital economy.
The commitments came on the first day of the landmark, high-level forum on Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship Development in Mashreq, which was hosted by the Government of Jordan and organized jointly with the World Bank Group.
The three governments had identified the challenges and solutions that would allow Mashreq countries to realize more gains to their economies and societies. Digitalization is shaping the present and future of economic activities as it brings about higher productivity, efficiencies and quicker inclusion of lagging economic and social groups, such as women and youth.
Mobile and digital solutions are contributing to facilitating greater financial inclusion. E-commerce and other digital applications are being leveraged to promote entrepreneurship,including the empowerment of women as entrepreneurs, and digital solutions are being sought to improve access to learning resources in an easier and less expensive way.
The Mobile Gender Report for 2018 lists a gender gap in mobile ownership among women in the region which can reach up to 20%. while this gap is only 2% in countries like Egypt or Turkey. Bringing this gap to less than 4% everywhere in the Mashreq would bring income opportunities for women in the region. Broadband access is estimated to increase employment among married women by as much as 4% in high income economies.
Broadly speaking, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon face similar obstacles to their quest to transform Mashreq into a regional hub for IT and Business Process Outsourcing. Policymakers, international and regional businesses, startups and investors all convened at the King Hussein Business Park to enrich the discussion with their expertise and experience on how to push this agenda forward.
The digital roadmaps were presented by the three ministers holding the Information Technology portfolio in their respective countries. World Bank Group committed to supporting these countries achieve their goals with specific focus on increasing broadband access, establishing cashless payment systems and bridging the gender gap in mobile usage.
Iraq
The Government of Iraq (GOI) is committed to further advancing the digital economy and aims to ensure affordable access to high speed internet, by doubling access to broadband to 54% in 2021 and 90% by 2030, achieving 100% broadband network coverage, establishing a conducive regulatory and policy framework for digital payments, developing interoperable digital payments infrastructure, and striving towards 100% financial access.
The GOI is also committed to delivering digital government services and ensuring highest standards of cybersecurity and data privacy to boost consumer trust. The GOI is also keen to ensure that education and training programs meet current and future job market skills needs.
Jordan
The Government of Jordan (GOJ) is committed to advancing the digital economy as strategic growth sector for the Kingdom. On digital infrastructure, the GOJ commits to further developing access to internet broadband to reach 100% penetration rate by 2021. As part of that, the GOJ is opening the National Broadband Network (7,000 kilometers of fiber) for Public Private Partnership, allowing affordable fiber broadband to 1.3 million households around Jordan. On digital payments, the GOJ commits to increasing country-level cashless payments from 33 to 50% by 2020 and to digitizing 80% of government to citizens payments by 2021. On developing digital skills, the GOJ will launch a national skills development initiative to train 35,000 people on the 21st century skills and mainstreaming digital skills in public schools to train 300 thousands by 2022. To enable a friendly business environment for entrepreneurs, the GOJ is committed to launching a regulatory reform process in 2019, following a participatory approach with ecosystem representatives. To complete automation of Government services, the GOJ commits to automate key services by 2021. Building on the recent transformations of the Ministry of ICT to Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, the GOJ will launch its digital transformation action plan in partnership with the ecosystem by end of 2019.
Lebanon
The Government of Lebanon (GOL) is committed to building a Digital Nation and to transform Lebanon into a regional technology and innovation hub. The GOL is in the process of finalizing its digital transformation plan and aims to double the knowledge economy’s contribution to GDP and double the employment in this sector by 2025. To achieve this, the GOL plans to: (i) reach 100% broadband penetration rate by end of 2021; (ii) develop and execute the digital transformation of the public sector and offer citizens a fully digitized journey across all government services, with 500,000 users signed up to the government digital platform by end of 2021; (iii) provide a supportive regulatory framework to help grow the Fintech industry and facilitate digital payments, launch a new national digital currency by the end of 2020, and launch an Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) to improve financing for private sector activities in 2020; (iv) leverage its pool of skilled and entrepreneurial talent in Lebanon and abroad to build a digital economy focused on innovation and private initiative, increase the number of start-ups fivefold and double yearly venture capital funding by 2025; and (v) address the existing skills gap by preparing the youth for the global, digital jobs of the future through launching a national training academy by 2021.
The World Bank commits to support Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan in achieving their visions and plans for digital transformation by providing the necessary resources and instruments. The World Bank will work closely with the Governments, private sector, academia and civil society to maximize the impact of digitization and reap the digital dividends for their societies.
This support will include: (i) pursuing plans to ensure affordable access to high-speed internet and facilitate investment in broadband; (ii) delivering digital government services and improving access to data, while ensuring the highest standards of cybersecurity and data privacy; (iii) developing a modern digital payment infrastructure; (iv) scaling up digital entrepreneurship; and (v) ensuring education and training programs meet current and future skills needs.
More details, including a video of the procedings, can be found here. LINK
Source: Dinar Recaps
______________________________________________________
If you wish to contact the author of any reader submitted guest post, you can give us an email at UniversalOm432Hz@gmail.com and we'll forward your request to the author.
______________________________________________________
All articles, videos, and images posted on Dinar Chronicles were submitted by readers and/or handpicked by the site itself for informational and/or entertainment purposes.
Dinar Chronicles is not a registered investment adviser, broker dealer, banker or currency dealer and as such, no information on the website should be construed as investment advice. We do not support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any content or communications posted on this site. Information posted on this site may or may not be fictitious. We do not intend to and are not providing financial, legal, tax, political or any other advice to readers of this website.
Copyright © 2019 Dinar Chronicles
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