Ariel : Right Now the Iraqi Dinar is Basically Stuck
Ariel : Right Now the Iraqi Dinar is Basically Stuck
11-19-2025
Iraq Update:
These two moves – forcing every single bank in Iraq to finish their full ICAAP stress-tested capital plans and flipping the switch to ISO 20022 for all cross-border payments starting this Saturday (Nov 22) – aren’t just “nice-to-have” upgrades.
They’re the final two checkboxes the grown-ups in the room (IMF, U.S. Treasury, BIS, the big correspondent banks in New York and London) have been demanding before they let Iraq play in the real international forex sandbox.
I have told people many times. This is why you do not constantly see me doing daily updates because there needs to be key items in place. Even if they clean up all corruption. All militias. All Iranian proxies. All Z*****t influences. They still need these basic elements in place in order to fully integrate into the globalist markets.
Think of it like this:
Right now the Iraqi dinar is basically stuck in a kiddie pool with floaties on. You can only buy or sell it in big size through the CBI’s daily dollar auction or a handful of shady exchange houses.
Nobody reputable touches it on the open forex market because the banks behind it look shaky on paper and the payment rails are still running 30-year-old SWIFT message formats that scream “money-laundering risk.”
Source(s): https://x.com/Prolotario1/status/1990894012014747681
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Ariel): Iraqi Dinar Update
Iraqi Dinar Update: Moving The Needle : A Windfall For The Ages
Here’s what is legitimately exciting for anyone holding or thinking about holding dinar (without the fairy-tale RV nonsense)
The dinar’s about to go fully international in a way it never has. Post-Nov 22, Iraqi banks are on the exact same modern payment rails as London, New York, and Singapore.
No more clunky middlemen or that old dollar auction crutch. That means real-time, clean cross-border flows trade finance, remittances, oil payments all smoother and cheaper. Less friction = more actual usage of IQD outside Iraq over time.
Private banks are getting real muscle for the first time in decades. With Basel III locked in and state banks getting restructured, you’re gonna see actual lending booms to the private sector.
Iraq’s non-oil economy could finally wake up. More factories, construction, tech stuff that creates real demand for the dinar instead of everyone hoarding dollars.
The street already knows something’s shifting the black market premium is basically dead. That’s the quietest it’s been since Sadaam’s days.
When the premium vanishes completely (and it’s damn close), the CBI has zero reason to keep artificially propping the rate. A slow, steady appreciation (think 5-15% a year as the economy diversifies) becomes way more plausible.
Iraq’s sitting on sound money in reserves and oil. Once the new rails are live and the banks are solid, the dinar becomes a legit carry-trade play for pros borrow cheap elsewhere, park in high-yield Iraqi deposits, collect the spread.
That foreign money flowing in naturally pushes the rate stronger over months/years, not overnight.
Which means if the Iraqi dinar goes up next month you don’t have to trade in all your notes. Because it’s going to continue to increase well into 2026/2027 even if it was to go international tomorrow.
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