Abstract

The bank financing is an important tool to finance the external sector, and the numbers reflect the amount of funding granted and do not clearly reflect the fact of the financial position of the bank. and the importance of research is to clarify the size of the funding for both public and private sectors and improve the requirements for opening the letter of credit and acceptance of letters of guarantee. the aims of research to identify the amount of funding granted to the two sectors during the period (2005-2010). is The research problem in the economic situation experienced by Iraq, which is reflected in the operations of bank financing. The research premise hypothesis that the size of the bank financing granted to the foreign sector did not represent the required level, and has been shown that the amount of funding is increasing during the study period, and this was a reflection of trade liberalization and the signing of several trade agreements.