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June 09,2021Iranian banking system held a total of 75,569.1 trillion rials ($328billion) in assets by the end of the previous fiscal year on March 20, up 39.4% on a year-on-year basis. Foreign assets owned by... -
June 09,2021Iran’s external debt increased slightly to $9.14 billion by the end of the previous fiscal year on March 20, the Central Bank of Iran reported. The country’s foreign debt is 1.2% or $111 million...
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June 08,2021In its weekly implementation of open market operations, the Central Bank of Iran conducted reverse repurchase agreement (reverse repo) operation for the first time. While the CBI has mainly...
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June 07,2021The Central Bank of Iran set out plans of action to address assorted banking and monetary issues in a bid to promote its contribution to economic growth. The package of measures includes monetary...
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May 31,2021The Central Bank of Iran’s Innovative Technologies Department has performed well in developing infrastructures to improve the transparency of banking transactions, the department said. In a press...
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May 31,2021The minimum capital requirement for setting up foreign exchange shops has been increased to 250 billion rials ($1.08 million) in large cities and 130 billion rials ($565,000) in other cities, the...
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May 30,2021With speculations about the removal of the governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Abdolnasser Hemmati, turning into reality, the CBI is waiting for a change of guard. Running in the presidential...
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May 21,2021The board of directors of the Central Bank of Iran has warned about consequences of the new legislation related to the banking and monetary system. In a meeting late on Wednesday, the board...
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May 19,2021The Central Bank of Iran Tuesday unveiled the ‘Centralized Database for Loans and Commitments’ known by its Persian acronym Samat, planned to enhance the CBI’s oversight of loans by banks....
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May 15,2021The Central Bank of Iran said it legal efforts prevented a Luxemburg court order to transfer its forex assets to the United States. In a statement on its website, the CBI said a Luxembourg court...
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April 24,2021Data released by the Central Bank of Iran indicate that banks handled transactions worth almost 775.3 trillion rials ($3.2 billion) a day at the interbank market in the previous fiscal year (March...
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April 16,2021The Governor of Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati dismissed claims that the CBI is the "government’s biggest debtor.” Hemmati was objecting to statements Tuesday by Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht...
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April 14,2021The governor of Central Bank of Iran rejected the IMF’s estimation of Iran’s currency reserve in its latest report published last week. In a note posted on his social media account, Abdolnasser...
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April 11,2021Banks and credit institutions are barred from processing payment requests of customers lacking complete ID information stored in the banks’ data center as of April 26, an official with the Central...
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April 07,2021In a meeting with members of Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four (G24), the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati said the International Monetary Fund and World Bank must take...
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April 02,2021The Central Bank of Iran has outlined priorities in the new fiscal year that started on March 21 including taming high inflation, boosting manufactures and stabilizing markets. It said it is...
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March 16,2021The new monetary policy of the Central Bank of Iran was timely and appropriate during the difficult economic conditions, head of the CBI's department for open market operation said. Reza...
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March 10,2021With the new fiscal year fast approaching, senior managers of Central Bank of Iran met on Tuesday where the governor defended the bank's performance during the course of the past 12 months. ...
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March 05,2021The Central Bank of Iran says decline in inflation expectation and relative stability in financial markets obviates the need for higher interest rates. Abdolnasser Hemmati, the CBI boss, in a...
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March 04,2021During the latest round of bond auctions held by the Central Bank of Iran this week, the government sold bonds worth 30.3 trillion ($121 million). This week's auction featured a bigger...
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March 01,2021The Central Bank of Iran has extended banking restrictions aimed at avoiding congestion in bank branches in line with broader measures to contain the spread of Covid-19. According to a notice...
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February 22,2021Iran and South Korea have reached an agreement on using "a part" of Iran’s foreign currency assets frozen in the Asian country. The agreement was reached in a meeting between the governor of...
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February 13,2021The Central Bank of Iran has recently rolled out various retail payment instruments, or developed guidelines for payment companies in recent months. "The effort is in line with the policy to...
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February 03,2021The Central Bank of Iran has allocated 150 trillion rials ($612.24 million) in aid packages and loans to the auto sector to help bolster productivity and localization efforts, the CBI chief said....
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January 19,2021South Korean banks wary of US sanctions are holding tight to billions of dollars in Iranian money, apparently unwilling or unable to budge before Joe Biden assumes office as the next president of...
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