ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Tuesday inaugurated a new digital payment platform that allows citizens to pay government bills electronically through participating banks, as part of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) push toward digital transformation.
The platform, called e-Psule - meaning bill in Kurdish - has been approved by the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), with Deloitte appointed to audit its payment processes. A KRG statement said the system, launched under Barzani’s supervision, “is a unified national system for delivering government bills digitally.”
Speaking at the launch event on Mount Korek, Barzani described the platform as “a great national achievement for all the people of Kurdistan,” adding that it is “an initiative for all the people of Iraq to benefit from.”
Ali al-Alaq, governor of the CBI, who also attended the event, said developing Iraq’s financial sector is “incomplete without coordination in efforts with the Kurdistan Region.”
According to the KRG, the platform’s approval by the CBI marks “an important and pivotal milestone within the government's strategy for digital transformation, which puts an end to decades of cash transactions and paper routines.