29/9/2009
General Manager of Bank of Iraq: we have issued (651, 660) A smart card
Professional staff issued a smart card (651. 660) A card during the past period for the introduction of modern technology in the work of Iraqi banks.
A media source in the Ministry of Finance's (Agency Iraqi media / conscious) that "the General Manager of Bank of Iraq Abdul-Hussein al-Yasiri said that staff on the issuance of smart card-issuing (635. 412) A card through Bank Rivers and (624. 168) a card through a bank branch
Governance, pointing out that all bank branches in Baghdad and the amount of (47) branches operating in the smart card project, as well as "on the branches of the central region."
The source added that "Yasiri pointed out that work is underway to activate the work in provinces across Iraq, where next month will see the activation of the project (POS) which is the system under which a citizen smart card holder as well as buying and selling on the theme of remittances and savings by using the smart card, which will benefit of the Iraqi citizen. "
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Last updated - Wednesday 30 September 2009 --
Finance announces possibility of taking salaries from banking companies
Seeking to activate the use of smart card to reallocate money and deposit
BAGHDAD - Wafa Amer
Ministry of Finance announced the possibility of recognizing and retirees covered by the subsidies and the salaries of social protection paid by the banking companies, the adoption of smart card starting next month, with confirmed its issuing more than 660 thousand cards through bank branches of governance and Iraq.
The general director of Bank of Iraq Abdul-Hussein al-Yasiri in a meeting yesterday with directors of bank branches in Baghdad:
The number of smart cards issued by banks and governance in Iraq across the country reached 660 thousand and 651 cards, divided by 491 thousand and 927 card issued by the Bank of Mesopotamia, in exchange for 168 thousand and 624 card by a bank governance. and emphasized during the meeting which was attended by the "morning" that the bank is going to open branches across the country, which will be next week, opening a branch in Najaf, bringing the number of branches to 160 in Baghdad and all the provinces.
Yasiri Turning in his speech to the banking system overall, indicating that the bank is nearing completion on the completion of all phases of the program, which provides banking and financial transactions in real time with all the countries of the world, stressing that there is cooperation with 30 thousand companies are distributed between different parts of the world, explained by saying that "whenever the expansion program will increase the number of companies that we deal with in addition to the increase in banking.
"For his part, an expert in Abu Yes Rafidain oil during the meeting that there are 255 used for the smart card, including 63 financial service, noting that the Bank seeks in each stage to activate most of these uses.
He said he will be starting from next October, the exchange offices operations salaries are paid to holders of the smart card and not to limit the banks, noting that there is coordination with all the banks in addition to the company's global smart card to an agreement with a number of banking centers based in Baghdad, which has the potential to enable broad from paying salaries to holders of the smart card.
He said the move aims to reduce the momentum of banks during the distribution of salaries, while stressing that the bank is now considering the possibility of activation of the system Altoveran through the card so as to enable users to have withdrawn the money it needs from the salary and not the full amount and deposit the remaining balance.
He added that Abu oil are now preparing for the possibility of transferring funds between cardholders, where the card holder can transfer part of the amount to another card holder, as well as the addition of global coordination to the card with a number of companies in the world, hoping that will soon be completed of special measures so that it provides to clients of the banks who own the smart card to withdraw money from any country in the world.
