🇮🇶 Iraqi dinar Update: Moving The Needle (Waiting For The I*******n Point) 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 d**d. That’s the quietest it’s been since S****m’s days.
When the premium vanishes completely (and it’s d**n 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 s****d 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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