Shafaq News/ The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) auctioned more than $200 million in foreign currency (forex) today, Wednesday.

Shafaq News Agency correspondent said that the CBI foreign currency sales in today's auction amounted to $202,253,620. The transactions were made at a weighted average of 1460 dinars to one dollar.

Our correspondent explained that 19 banks and 207 exchange companies cashed out $51.550 million. The remaining $150,703,620 went to boost funds abroad in the form of credit and non-cash transactions, with 28 banks meeting those requests.