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Financial Services

Sector monitoring and assessment brief

Editorial review: 30 September 2026

Scope

Define the intended financial activity, customer and delivery partner before discussing an entry model. Activity-specific regulatory assessment must be performed with qualified specialists; this brief does not assert permission to conduct a financial activity.

Questions to assess

  • Is the proposition payments, banking, credit, insurance or a supporting technology service?
  • Which licensed partners, customer safeguards and data responsibilities need verification?
  • What evidence shows active use, retention and sustainable unit economics?

Evidence and limits

The Central Bank’s 40% statement does not by itself define active use or a product market size. The 2025–2029 strategy is a policy period, not a numeric target.

Information needed to start

Activity, customer group, partner model, transaction or usage evidence and specialist assessment of requirements.

How ABCI can support the assessment

The scope is agreed around the available evidence and the decision required. See the related service for its capabilities, deliverables and specialist coordination. Inclusion here does not claim a completed sector study, a client mandate or an available investment.

Sourced context

Institutional baseline

Financial inclusion

40%

Statement: February 2025 · survey period not stated

40% stated by the Central Bank on 26 February 2025. The announcement does not define the measured population, instrument coverage or survey period; comparisons require a consistent definition.

Definition, dates & source context
Measurement period
Not identified in the linked source
Publication date
2025-02-26
Independent check
2026-09-30
Source edition
Linked publication / page; edition number not stated
Source: Central Bank of Iraq — financial inclusion statement, February 2025 ↗
Official strategy / implementation period

National Financial Inclusion Strategy

2025–2029

2025–2029

Implementation period of the national strategy. This entry is policy context, not a numerical inclusion target or an achieved result.

Definition, dates & source context
Measurement period
2025–2029
Publication date
2025-05-25
Independent check
2026-09-30
Source edition
Linked publication / page; edition number not stated
Source: Central Bank of Iraq — National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2025–2029 ↗

SOURCE REGISTER

Sources

The register identifies each linked publication or data series. Indicator cards retain measurement periods and definitions. An absent publication or check date is shown explicitly; the edition date is not a substitute.

  1. Central Bank of Iraq — financial inclusion statement, February 2025

    Linked publication / page; edition number not stated

    Published: 2025-02-26

    Independent check: 2026-09-30

  2. Central Bank of Iraq — National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2025–2029

    Linked publication / page; edition number not stated

    Published: 2025-05-25

    Independent check: 2026-09-30

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