Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani confirmed on Thursday that the government has put the issue of economic and banking reform among its top priorities.
“A Sudanese, today, received the regional president of Visa in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Andrew Toure and his accompanying delegation,” the Prime Minister’s Information Office said in a statement received by Mawazine News.
Al-Sudani said – according to the statement – that “the government has placed the issue of economic and banking reform among its most important priorities, and it seeks and welcomes cooperation in this field, pointing to the adoption of the electronic payment system in the Council of Ministers.”
He praised, “The company’s cooperation in expanding electronic payment technology and digital transformation, whether through the training of workers in Iraq or by contributing to the education of the electronic payment process.”
For his part, Andrew expressed “the desire to continue cooperation with the Central Bank of Iraq and all Iraqi banking sector institutions,” noting that “Visa’s interest in supporting the Iraqi government’s plans towards electronic payment and economic and banking reform, by offering advanced solutions and technologies to the market, as well as its readiness to bring expertise, in addition to operating more Iraqis in its office in Baghdad; with the aim of reaching 500,000 points of acceptance from points of sale by electronic payment in Iraq.”l
