Article: “Economist talks about new measures after stopping transfers” Quote: “the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, Ali Al-Alaq, in New York over three days with US Treasury officials gave a new boost and confidence to the Iraqi banking system…The Central Bank of Iraq will stop dealings with foreign correspondent banks in the future and reduce reliance on them, after developing the Iraqi banking relations network…and gradually ending work on the electronic platform for transfers and replacing it with direct banking relations between Iraqi banks and the network of international correspondent banks.”