For the purpose of preparation and moral cooperation Gavin Wishart the president of banking and financial establishment for MENA region and Christopher Papa the head of financial service implementation of standard charted banking for Middle East met with H.E Dr. Ali Sindi the Minister of Planning (KRG) 

The high level delegation visit to Kurdistan and the purpose of meeting between both sides was to discuss the preparation mechanism to open a branch of standard charted bank in Kurdistan region,

H.E Dr Ali Sindi emphasized his government technical support and cooperation to the delegation, and he articulate that the (KRG) is encourages and fully support international financial and banking sector to invest in Kurdistan region.

The standard charted is a financial establishment works throughout Asia and medial East and North Africa, recently they moved to Iraq and Kurdistan region as well.