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8/5/26, 11:42 AM Qi Card at Money20/20 Europe 2026: Iraq's Digital Payments Story — Renascence

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Qi Card at Money20/20

Europe 2026: Iraq's

Digital Payments Story

Iraq's Qi Card will present its government-mandated digital payments transformation at
Money20/20 Europe 2026, offering rare frontier-market insight into default architecture
and financial inclusion at national scale.

R Renascence Newsdesk
Curated briefing · 2 min read

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What happened

Iraq's national payments platform Qi Card is set to appear at Money20/20 Europe 2026,
where it will present the story of Iraq's broader shift from a cash-dependent economy

towards a digitalised financial infrastructure. The appearance positions Qi Card as a
flagship example of state-backed digital transformation in a frontier market, bringing a
rarely heard perspective to one of the fintech industry's most prominent international
stages.

Qi Card operates as Iraq's dominant electronic payments network, serving millions of
citizens — including government salary and social-welfare recipients — and has been
central to the country's push to bring unbanked and underbanked populations into the

formal financial system. Its presence at Money20/20 Europe signals an intent to engage

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