MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
Signature content of MTBiz is its Article of the Month (AoM), as depicted on Cover Page of each issue, with featured focus on different issues that fall into the wide definition of Market, Business, Organization and Leadership. The AoM also covers areas on Innovation, Central Banking, Monetary Policy, National Budget, Economic Depression or Growth and Capital Market. Scale of coverage of the AoM both, global and local subject to each issue.
MTBiz is a monthly Market Review produced and distributed by Group R&D, MTB since 2009.
International Monetary System: The International Financial System - Reform of International Monetary Affairs
- The Bretton Wood System and the International Monetary Fund, Controversy over Regulation of International
Finance, Developing Countries' Concerns, Exchange Rate Policy of Developing Economies.
This document provides a summary of recent developments in global financial markets following the sub-prime mortgage crisis. It discusses how turmoil originated from problems in the US sub-prime mortgage market but was exacerbated by a liquidity crisis in the European inter-bank market. While central banks provided liquidity to stabilize markets, the document argues the current financial system's overreliance on complex, opaque instruments like CDOs and lack of transparency regarding risk has increased uncertainty and amplified volatility. Long-term regulatory reforms are needed to improve transparency and prevent excessive risk-taking.
The report highlights the urgent
challenges arising from the world financial and economic crisis and its aftermath, in
particular in the key areas of financial regulation and supervision, multilateral
surveillance, macroeconomic policy coordination, sovereign debt, a global financial
safety net, the international reserve system and governance reform of the Bretton
Woods institutions.
International Monetary System: The International Financial System - Reform of International Monetary Affairs
- The Bretton Wood System and the International Monetary Fund, Controversy over Regulation of International
Finance, Developing Countries' Concerns, Exchange Rate Policy of Developing Economies.
The document provides an overview of the global financial crisis of 2008. It discusses several key points:
- The US housing market boom from 2002-2006 led to a housing price bubble that eventually burst, contributing to the crisis. As housing prices declined sharply from their 2006 peak, foreclosures and defaults increased substantially.
- Loose monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve from 2002-2004, keeping interest rates low, fueled risky lending and the housing bubble. When rates rose in 2005-2006, the default rate on adjustable mortgages skyrocketed.
- Highly leveraged investment banks collapsed in 2008 as default rates rose due to declining lending standards. Stock prices around the world plummeted nearly 40
This document provides solutions to end-of-chapter questions and problems from the textbook "Multinational Finance" by Kirt C. Butler. It addresses conceptual questions about international finance topics such as foreign exchange risk, political risk, cultural differences, and goals of financial management for multinational corporations. The solutions also discuss trade pacts, trends in exports, and classifications of economies. Key events in international monetary systems like the Bretton Woods agreement and currency crises are summarized.
This document discusses recommendations for restoring confidence in securitization markets following the 2008 financial crisis. It notes that securitization is important for credit availability but weaknesses were revealed. The Global Joint Initiative was launched by industry groups to implement recommendations and best practices. Based on research, the report identifies priorities like increasing transparency, standardizing practices, and addressing conflicts of interest. The goal is to restart securitization in a way that prevents future failures and supports economic growth.
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
Signature content of MTBiz is its Article of the Month (AoM), as depicted on Cover Page of each issue, with featured focus on different issues that fall into the wide definition of Market, Business, Organization and Leadership. The AoM also covers areas on Innovation, Central Banking, Monetary Policy, National Budget, Economic Depression or Growth and Capital Market. Scale of coverage of the AoM both, global and local subject to each issue.
MTBiz is a monthly Market Review produced and distributed by Group R&D, MTB since 2009.
International Monetary System: The International Financial System - Reform of International Monetary Affairs
- The Bretton Wood System and the International Monetary Fund, Controversy over Regulation of International
Finance, Developing Countries' Concerns, Exchange Rate Policy of Developing Economies.
This document provides a summary of recent developments in global financial markets following the sub-prime mortgage crisis. It discusses how turmoil originated from problems in the US sub-prime mortgage market but was exacerbated by a liquidity crisis in the European inter-bank market. While central banks provided liquidity to stabilize markets, the document argues the current financial system's overreliance on complex, opaque instruments like CDOs and lack of transparency regarding risk has increased uncertainty and amplified volatility. Long-term regulatory reforms are needed to improve transparency and prevent excessive risk-taking.
The report highlights the urgent
challenges arising from the world financial and economic crisis and its aftermath, in
particular in the key areas of financial regulation and supervision, multilateral
surveillance, macroeconomic policy coordination, sovereign debt, a global financial
safety net, the international reserve system and governance reform of the Bretton
Woods institutions.
International Monetary System: The International Financial System - Reform of International Monetary Affairs
- The Bretton Wood System and the International Monetary Fund, Controversy over Regulation of International
Finance, Developing Countries' Concerns, Exchange Rate Policy of Developing Economies.
The document provides an overview of the global financial crisis of 2008. It discusses several key points:
- The US housing market boom from 2002-2006 led to a housing price bubble that eventually burst, contributing to the crisis. As housing prices declined sharply from their 2006 peak, foreclosures and defaults increased substantially.
- Loose monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve from 2002-2004, keeping interest rates low, fueled risky lending and the housing bubble. When rates rose in 2005-2006, the default rate on adjustable mortgages skyrocketed.
- Highly leveraged investment banks collapsed in 2008 as default rates rose due to declining lending standards. Stock prices around the world plummeted nearly 40
This document provides solutions to end-of-chapter questions and problems from the textbook "Multinational Finance" by Kirt C. Butler. It addresses conceptual questions about international finance topics such as foreign exchange risk, political risk, cultural differences, and goals of financial management for multinational corporations. The solutions also discuss trade pacts, trends in exports, and classifications of economies. Key events in international monetary systems like the Bretton Woods agreement and currency crises are summarized.
This document discusses recommendations for restoring confidence in securitization markets following the 2008 financial crisis. It notes that securitization is important for credit availability but weaknesses were revealed. The Global Joint Initiative was launched by industry groups to implement recommendations and best practices. Based on research, the report identifies priorities like increasing transparency, standardizing practices, and addressing conflicts of interest. The goal is to restart securitization in a way that prevents future failures and supports economic growth.
Financial Market Failure and Regulation of the Financial Systemtutor2u
This is a study presentation on different causes of financial market failure and also policies introduced designed better to regulate the activities of the financial sector.
This document discusses the causes and impacts of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. It identifies several factors that contributed to the crisis, including low interest rates, excessive lending, deregulation, and the growth of risky financial instruments. The crisis began with the collapse of the US housing market and spread globally. While India's banking system was not directly impacted, the country still experienced effects such as declines in its stock and currency markets, slower industrial and export growth, job losses, and increased poverty. Agriculture, IT, and other sectors were also negatively impacted.
Western governments are hopelessly addicted to deficit financing while refusing to address looming funding issues - with apologies to the embarrassingly foolish Angela Merkel, politicians can no more successfully “battle” the markets than you and I can successfully “battle” gravity. Petrocapita is an investment trust built around the premise that demand for energy will continue to move prices higher over the long-term. Petrocapita was created to allow investors to add professionally managed oil & gas assets directly to their portfolios.
The Federal Reserve took several steps to address the US credit crisis, including establishing new lending facilities to provide banks with liquidity and lower interest rates. The Term Auction Facility, Term Securities Lending Facility, Primary Dealer Credit Facility, and Commercial Paper Funding Facility allowed banks and dealers to borrow directly from the Fed. The Fed also lowered interest rate targets and expanded currency swaps with other central banks to ease global credit. However, the responses failed to prevent high inflation and a weaker dollar, and may have increased moral hazard risk.
The document discusses current economic and social challenges facing the financial sector, including lack of confidence, stalled economic growth, and new regulatory requirements. It argues that restoring confidence, promoting higher growth through responsible economic policies and citizen behavior, increasing capital reserves to meet new rules, and stronger fiscal and political integration in Europe could help address these challenges. Individuals should contribute through developing strong ethical values and entrepreneurial thinking. Working in investment management could provide opportunities to help reshape the financial industry.
This document provides a history of financial instruments used by banks for credit markets. It discusses:
1) How the Bretton Woods system after WWII established the IMF, World Bank and use of US dollars as the global reserve currency to rebuild war-torn nations.
2) In the 1960s, as US gold reserves dwindled, banks began issuing credit instruments like letters of credit to recycle dollars and maintain currency values.
3) These instruments allowed banks to profit by issuing guarantees, accessing funds at low rates from central banks, and lending at higher rates, while also helping governments control money supply and inflation. They remain an important tool for international finance.
The document discusses interest rates, quantitative easing, and obstacles to raising interest rates. It notes that interest rates are an important economic indicator that influence investment decisions. While quantitative easing helped stimulate the economy after 2008, it also increased bank reserves and the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, posing obstacles to raising rates. The Federal Reserve is monitoring economic data to determine when the economy is strong enough to withstand higher interest rates without damaging the job market or global financial stability.
I. The 2008 financial crisis began with the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble and subprime mortgage crisis, which spread to other economies. Major financial institutions like Lehman Brothers collapsed due to bad investments in subprime mortgages.
II. The crisis had wide-ranging impacts, including a global recession, falling trade and commodity prices, and reduced capital flows to developing countries. Unemployment rose sharply.
III. Countries that avoided financial liberalization and maintained conservative monetary policies, like India, were less severely impacted than countries that embraced deregulation and risky financial innovations. The crisis accelerated power shifts toward emerging economies.
The document discusses the American financial crisis of 2007-2008. It provides background on the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, which began with rising mortgage defaults in 2007 and led to a global financial crisis. Risky subprime loans were packaged and sold as complex financial derivatives. This caused systemic banking crises as losses mounted. The crisis spread from the housing market to the broader economy, shaking global financial stability. Key factors that contributed to the crisis included reckless lending practices, a culture of greed, cheap credit availability, and the bundling of risky subprime assets into complex securities.
International Monetary System: The International Financial System - Reform of International Monetary Affairs
- The Bretton Wood System and the International Monetary Fund, Controversy over Regulation of International
Finance, Developing Countries' Concerns, Exchange Rate Policy of Developing Economies.
The document discusses deposit insurance schemes that have been established in many countries around the world. It notes that over 50% of countries have established such schemes to increase depositor confidence and stability in the banking system by guaranteeing deposits. However, deposit insurance also creates moral hazard by removing depositor discipline over bank risk-taking. The document analyzes differences in features of deposit insurance schemes, such as coverage limits, funding structures, use of risk-adjusted premiums, and membership types. Effective bank regulation and supervision are needed to mitigate the moral hazard created by deposit insurance.
After the storm- Global Financial Crisis 27 aug 2010Gaurav Sharma
Global Financial Order - Reasons for Crisis, Current Status, The BIG Shifts- Public Debt, Global De-leverage, Wealth Concetration & Creation.
Talk Delivered at Fore School Of Management, new Delhi
This study presentation looks at the causes and consequences of different types of financial crisis. It also focuses on the Hyman Minsky theory of financial instability in a capitalist economic system.
This document summarizes the 2008 financial crisis and its impacts. It discusses how the bursting of the housing bubble in the United States, marked by rising default rates on subprime mortgages, triggered the crisis. As major financial institutions like Lehman Brothers collapsed due to their exposure to these risky mortgages, stock markets plunged substantially. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 50% from its peak in October 2007 to its trough in March 2009. Countries around the world, including India, felt significant impacts through falling stock prices, currency depreciation, and reduced foreign investment.
imapct of financial crisis and role of financial institutions in this crisisRanjith Reddy
1. The document discusses the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, which originated from the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. Risky subprime loans were bundled into securities and spread widely throughout the global financial system.
2. As housing prices declined and subprime borrowers began to default, the value of these securities plummeted. This caused the failure of banks and other financial institutions highly exposed to subprime mortgages.
3. The crisis had ripple effects across borders, with investments devalued and economies impacted around the world. Governments enacted massive bailouts to stabilize the financial system and prevent a global economic depression.
The document summarizes the key topics and discussions from the Fifth Annual Conference on "Financial Innovation and the Macro Economy". It discusses several papers presented at the conference that examined the relationship between financial innovation, markets, macroeconomics and policy. In particular, it outlines arguments made in papers on how banks create their own funding through money creation rather than intermediating loanable funds as traditionally thought, and how modern banking and payments occur across two layers between banks and non-banks. The conference aimed to shed light on pressing policy issues regarding financial stability, debt, and the effects of financial innovation.
Reflections on the global crisis of 2008 and its possible economic, social an...Fernando Alcoforado
The document summarizes reflections on the global financial crisis of 2008 and its economic, social, and geopolitical impacts. It discusses the origins of the crisis in the US mortgage industry and the complex financial innovations that spread risk but also created opacity. The crisis had long-lasting effects, including a global economic slowdown, rising protectionism, and a shift in geopolitical power away from Western nations like the US towards emerging economies like China. It argues the crisis called into question assumptions about efficient markets and revealed underlying imbalances in the global economy.
The document discusses several financial crises including the 1980s debt crisis, the 1997-98 Asian crisis, and the current subprime crisis. It analyzes the causes and impacts of these crises from an international political economy perspective. The document also examines historical patterns of economic regimes emerging after financial crises and questions whether the current crisis may lead to a new economic regime.
This document provides instructions for exporting an InDesign visual portfolio to a PDF file. It outlines locating and opening the InDesign file, resolving any missing image links, clicking "File" then "Adobe PDF Presets" to export it as a high quality PDF, saving the file in the Visual Portfolio folder with the student's name, and checking that folder for the exported PDF file.
Financial Market Failure and Regulation of the Financial Systemtutor2u
This is a study presentation on different causes of financial market failure and also policies introduced designed better to regulate the activities of the financial sector.
This document discusses the causes and impacts of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. It identifies several factors that contributed to the crisis, including low interest rates, excessive lending, deregulation, and the growth of risky financial instruments. The crisis began with the collapse of the US housing market and spread globally. While India's banking system was not directly impacted, the country still experienced effects such as declines in its stock and currency markets, slower industrial and export growth, job losses, and increased poverty. Agriculture, IT, and other sectors were also negatively impacted.
Western governments are hopelessly addicted to deficit financing while refusing to address looming funding issues - with apologies to the embarrassingly foolish Angela Merkel, politicians can no more successfully “battle” the markets than you and I can successfully “battle” gravity. Petrocapita is an investment trust built around the premise that demand for energy will continue to move prices higher over the long-term. Petrocapita was created to allow investors to add professionally managed oil & gas assets directly to their portfolios.
The Federal Reserve took several steps to address the US credit crisis, including establishing new lending facilities to provide banks with liquidity and lower interest rates. The Term Auction Facility, Term Securities Lending Facility, Primary Dealer Credit Facility, and Commercial Paper Funding Facility allowed banks and dealers to borrow directly from the Fed. The Fed also lowered interest rate targets and expanded currency swaps with other central banks to ease global credit. However, the responses failed to prevent high inflation and a weaker dollar, and may have increased moral hazard risk.
The document discusses current economic and social challenges facing the financial sector, including lack of confidence, stalled economic growth, and new regulatory requirements. It argues that restoring confidence, promoting higher growth through responsible economic policies and citizen behavior, increasing capital reserves to meet new rules, and stronger fiscal and political integration in Europe could help address these challenges. Individuals should contribute through developing strong ethical values and entrepreneurial thinking. Working in investment management could provide opportunities to help reshape the financial industry.
This document provides a history of financial instruments used by banks for credit markets. It discusses:
1) How the Bretton Woods system after WWII established the IMF, World Bank and use of US dollars as the global reserve currency to rebuild war-torn nations.
2) In the 1960s, as US gold reserves dwindled, banks began issuing credit instruments like letters of credit to recycle dollars and maintain currency values.
3) These instruments allowed banks to profit by issuing guarantees, accessing funds at low rates from central banks, and lending at higher rates, while also helping governments control money supply and inflation. They remain an important tool for international finance.
The document discusses interest rates, quantitative easing, and obstacles to raising interest rates. It notes that interest rates are an important economic indicator that influence investment decisions. While quantitative easing helped stimulate the economy after 2008, it also increased bank reserves and the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, posing obstacles to raising rates. The Federal Reserve is monitoring economic data to determine when the economy is strong enough to withstand higher interest rates without damaging the job market or global financial stability.
I. The 2008 financial crisis began with the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble and subprime mortgage crisis, which spread to other economies. Major financial institutions like Lehman Brothers collapsed due to bad investments in subprime mortgages.
II. The crisis had wide-ranging impacts, including a global recession, falling trade and commodity prices, and reduced capital flows to developing countries. Unemployment rose sharply.
III. Countries that avoided financial liberalization and maintained conservative monetary policies, like India, were less severely impacted than countries that embraced deregulation and risky financial innovations. The crisis accelerated power shifts toward emerging economies.
The document discusses the American financial crisis of 2007-2008. It provides background on the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, which began with rising mortgage defaults in 2007 and led to a global financial crisis. Risky subprime loans were packaged and sold as complex financial derivatives. This caused systemic banking crises as losses mounted. The crisis spread from the housing market to the broader economy, shaking global financial stability. Key factors that contributed to the crisis included reckless lending practices, a culture of greed, cheap credit availability, and the bundling of risky subprime assets into complex securities.
International Monetary System: The International Financial System - Reform of International Monetary Affairs
- The Bretton Wood System and the International Monetary Fund, Controversy over Regulation of International
Finance, Developing Countries' Concerns, Exchange Rate Policy of Developing Economies.
The document discusses deposit insurance schemes that have been established in many countries around the world. It notes that over 50% of countries have established such schemes to increase depositor confidence and stability in the banking system by guaranteeing deposits. However, deposit insurance also creates moral hazard by removing depositor discipline over bank risk-taking. The document analyzes differences in features of deposit insurance schemes, such as coverage limits, funding structures, use of risk-adjusted premiums, and membership types. Effective bank regulation and supervision are needed to mitigate the moral hazard created by deposit insurance.
After the storm- Global Financial Crisis 27 aug 2010Gaurav Sharma
Global Financial Order - Reasons for Crisis, Current Status, The BIG Shifts- Public Debt, Global De-leverage, Wealth Concetration & Creation.
Talk Delivered at Fore School Of Management, new Delhi
This study presentation looks at the causes and consequences of different types of financial crisis. It also focuses on the Hyman Minsky theory of financial instability in a capitalist economic system.
This document summarizes the 2008 financial crisis and its impacts. It discusses how the bursting of the housing bubble in the United States, marked by rising default rates on subprime mortgages, triggered the crisis. As major financial institutions like Lehman Brothers collapsed due to their exposure to these risky mortgages, stock markets plunged substantially. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 50% from its peak in October 2007 to its trough in March 2009. Countries around the world, including India, felt significant impacts through falling stock prices, currency depreciation, and reduced foreign investment.
imapct of financial crisis and role of financial institutions in this crisisRanjith Reddy
1. The document discusses the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, which originated from the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. Risky subprime loans were bundled into securities and spread widely throughout the global financial system.
2. As housing prices declined and subprime borrowers began to default, the value of these securities plummeted. This caused the failure of banks and other financial institutions highly exposed to subprime mortgages.
3. The crisis had ripple effects across borders, with investments devalued and economies impacted around the world. Governments enacted massive bailouts to stabilize the financial system and prevent a global economic depression.
The document summarizes the key topics and discussions from the Fifth Annual Conference on "Financial Innovation and the Macro Economy". It discusses several papers presented at the conference that examined the relationship between financial innovation, markets, macroeconomics and policy. In particular, it outlines arguments made in papers on how banks create their own funding through money creation rather than intermediating loanable funds as traditionally thought, and how modern banking and payments occur across two layers between banks and non-banks. The conference aimed to shed light on pressing policy issues regarding financial stability, debt, and the effects of financial innovation.
Reflections on the global crisis of 2008 and its possible economic, social an...Fernando Alcoforado
The document summarizes reflections on the global financial crisis of 2008 and its economic, social, and geopolitical impacts. It discusses the origins of the crisis in the US mortgage industry and the complex financial innovations that spread risk but also created opacity. The crisis had long-lasting effects, including a global economic slowdown, rising protectionism, and a shift in geopolitical power away from Western nations like the US towards emerging economies like China. It argues the crisis called into question assumptions about efficient markets and revealed underlying imbalances in the global economy.
The document discusses several financial crises including the 1980s debt crisis, the 1997-98 Asian crisis, and the current subprime crisis. It analyzes the causes and impacts of these crises from an international political economy perspective. The document also examines historical patterns of economic regimes emerging after financial crises and questions whether the current crisis may lead to a new economic regime.
This document provides instructions for exporting an InDesign visual portfolio to a PDF file. It outlines locating and opening the InDesign file, resolving any missing image links, clicking "File" then "Adobe PDF Presets" to export it as a high quality PDF, saving the file in the Visual Portfolio folder with the student's name, and checking that folder for the exported PDF file.
Prezentacja ta została stworzona na potrzeby jednego z konkursów w ramach Chorzowskich Zmagań Gimnazjalistów. Została ona przygotowana przez dwie przedstawicielki grupy i pokazana jury podczas sprawozdania z akcji charytatywnej naszego zespołu, którą była pomoc bezdomnym czworonogom.
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Regina Drury is applying for an admin assistant position with Danny Iny. She has 2 years of experience running her own video production company which exposed her to various business aspects like marketing, sales, and bookkeeping. She also has skills in accounting, financial reporting, database creation, and video/audio production and editing. Regina emphasizes her adaptability, having learned new instruments and worked for various small businesses where she had to adjust to different environments. Her philosophy aligns with making business a force for good by focusing on caring, collaboration, and using profit to better the world.
The document provides a tour of the town of Orivesi, Finland, which has around 10,000 inhabitants. It describes several landmarks in the town center including the Lutheran church from the 18th century and newer buildings, the municipal building, town hall, library, ice cream shop, statues, sports facilities, outdoor museum, hotel, market, and college. The tour highlights the town's history and culture and hopes the reader enjoyed learning about Orivesi.
The document discusses scareware and an incident involving scareware originating from Ireland. Scareware tricks users into believing their computer is infected in order to get them to purchase fake anti-virus software. The incident involved websites hosting scareware that would redirect users through a chain of other compromised sites before serving scareware files. Security professionals used various forensic tools to analyze the scareware and handle the incident by containing the infection, eradicating it from affected systems, and helping users recover while also learning lessons to prevent future incidents.
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Did we all around the globe sit down together and decide to follow Capitalism? Was Capitalism in the same form since beginning than now? In fact, it would be unrealistic to say that we decided to pick Capitalism. We just derived into it. And the concepts, forms and philosophy of Capitalism evolved over time.
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Dr. Alan Greenspan, Lawrence
Summers from Harvard, Austan Goolgbee, US President’s Council of Economic Advisors are few of the thinks tanks attending the gathering (October 2011).
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How is then the New of Form of Capitalism going to shape like? If we recollect from the beginning paragraph, we notice, one of the major advantages of Capitalism was conceived to be “Less Control of Government over markets”. The New Capitalism is believed to start changing its current hue from this point.
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Why would Formative Capitalism would survive during recession and depressions? And why should we believe that to? The simplest reason is: because the performance of Formative Capitalists
isn’t just countercyclical, skyrocketing during the downturn and then collapsing.
A video game console is an electronic device that connects to a TV or monitor to display video games. It is designed specifically for playing video games, unlike general-purpose computers. The first company to use the term "console" was Fairchild in 1976 to refer to its Video Entertainment System. A console outputs signals to display games on a screen and includes controllers for user input. Handheld game consoles are portable devices with built-in screens and controls that do not require connection to an external display. Common elements of consoles include controllers for input, a power supply, a core processing unit, game media for storing games, and sometimes memory cards for saving game data.
Paychex One-Source Solutions provides comprehensive HR services and support options through a single partner. It offers centralized data management, flexible service options tailored to clients' needs, easy-to-use accessibility, and reliable support at cost-justified rates based on Paychex's nearly 40 years of industry experience serving over 570,000 clients.
The document provides instructions for adding a background or canvas to an image in 3 steps:
1. Duplicate the artwork layer to avoid having to re-edit the image.
2. Use the Canvas Size tool to add a 2 inch border around the image layer by setting it to Relative and increasing the width and height.
3. Select black, white, or grey for the canvas extension color depending on whether the artwork is color or black and white.
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Plot: 76.000 s.q.m.
Constructed area*: 2.000 s.q.m
* It includes: house, garden, swimming pool, terraces, tennis court, barbecue area and parking area.
House Style: Ibicenco.
Sleeps: 10.
Bedrooms: 5 | Bathrooms: 4.
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Can Taltavuit is located in the countryside in Santa Gertrudis in a place relaxing and full of peace to 15 minutes from Ibiza Town.
This magnificient villa is constructed on two levels and counts on 2 living room, 1 dining room, 2 big kitchen, 5 double bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, laundry, hall, terraces, barbecue area, swimming pool, gardens, tennis court and parking area. Wifi, TV and Canal Plus.
It is a great property ideal for living an authentic Ibiza experience with your family and friends during your holidays.
Rates includes diary cleaning and also maintenance of swimming pool and garden.
On the other hand the owners can offer you a diary breakfast with an extra cost.
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Breathtaking in every sense of the word, nothing signals your arrival like the Predator 68. Piercing through waves with ease, its exhilarating performance is matched only by its unmistakable styling.
Exquisite interior options and captivating design are prominent throughout the entire yacht - a classic example of Sunseeker design ingenuity. The extravagant sliding roof adds a sense of occasion to every journey. Built to both thrill and inspire, you can’t help but fall for this symbol of success.
NCrafts.IO 2015 - Future of User eXperiencesVincent Guigui
Kinect, Oculus, Holograms, Wearables, Smart Objects...
Over the past few years, we have seen a rise of the new devices and sensors coming to our everyday life.
This session will explain the principles of interfaces, what is innovation and how to use these new devices to create more natural and more personal computing experiences by blurring the line between our world and the digital one.
Video available on NCrafts Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/131932860
Boardwalk Capital Management is a registered investment advisory firm founded in 2009 that provides wealth management and financial advisory services with a focus on sustainable, responsible and impact investing. The firm aims to help clients navigate financial challenges and market volatility through a transparent fee structure, disciplined risk management, and diversified portfolios. Boardwalk Capital is a Certified B Corporation committed to incorporating environmental and social values into its services.
The document summarizes some of the key risks facing the international banking system. It discusses how sovereign debt crises are destabilizing markets and economic growth is sluggish in developed nations. Banks face challenges including high credit risks in Europe, regulatory changes, and demanding customers. The main risks identified include default risk if borrowers fail to repay, financial risk from capital structure and debt levels, and business risk from uncertainty in markets and income.
La pandemia di coronavirus (COVID-19) pone sfide di stabilità sanitaria, economica e finanziaria senza precedenti. A seguito dell'epidemia di COVID-19, i prezzi delle attività a rischio sono crollati e la volatilità del mercato è aumentata vertiginosamente, mentre le aspettative di inadempienze diffuse hanno portato a un aumento dei costi di indebitamento. Le decisive azioni di politica monetaria, finanziaria e fiscale volte a contenere le ricadute della pandemia e sono riuscite a stabilizzare gli investitori tra la fine di marzo e l'inizio di aprile. I mercati hanno recuperato alcune delle loro perdite.
The document summarizes several design failures in the Eurozone that contributed to economic instability. It discusses how (1) booms and busts continued to occur at the national level without coordination at the union level, which the monetary union likely exacerbated, and (2) stabilizing mechanisms that existed at national levels were removed without being implemented at the union level, leaving member states vulnerable. Specifically, there was no lender of last resort for governments, exposing government bond markets to self-fulfilling liquidity crises. This caused austerity and recessions while increasing debt loads in troubled countries.
The document summarizes the key differences between the World Bank and IMF:
- The World Bank focuses on development and financing projects through loans, while the IMF focuses on maintaining monetary stability and a code of conduct around exchange rates between nations.
- The World Bank gets most of its funding through bond sales and borrowing, while the IMF's resources come from membership fees paid by its member countries.
- The World Bank employs over 7,000 staff with expertise in development fields, while the IMF has about 2,300 staff focused on economics and finance working primarily out of its Washington D.C. headquarters.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Balance of Payment Account
Introduction to Basic Concept of IFRS.
MLAs and ECAs have proven resilient during the financial crisis and have helped stabilize the global economy. Their long-term mission of promoting international cooperation and development, rather than profit-maximization, makes them less prone to risky behavior. Additionally, MLAs like the World Bank take a conservative approach to lending with one dollar in reserves for each dollar lent. This, along with being lenders of last resort, has allowed them to avoid needing additional capital from shareholders. MLAs and ECAs also provide short-term liquidity and support trade, with ECAs insuring over $1.3 trillion in trade in 2007. They have disbursed over $100 billion in emergency loans to developing countries and will play
The IMF aims to prevent another global depression by encouraging countries to adopt sound economic policies and providing funds to address balance of payments problems. It puts pressure on governments to stimulate demand and provides loans to ensure liquidity. The IMF monitors economies, provides policy advice and technical assistance, and lends to countries with balance of payments issues to prevent financial crises from spreading. It is funded by capital subscriptions from its 183 member countries.
CLASS PRESENTATION ON MANAGING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY SINCE WORLD WAR II.pptxGeorgeKabongah2
The document provides an overview of several international financial institutions (IFIs) including the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and regional development banks. It describes the objectives of IFIs as reducing poverty, supporting sustainable development, and promoting regional cooperation. It then details the specific purposes and functions of the World Bank and IMF, established in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, in providing financing and advice to member countries. Key aspects covered include lending and conditionality, the IMF's role in surveillance and technical assistance, and the SDR reserve currency.
The document provides an overview of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), including:
- The IMF was established in 1944 to promote global monetary cooperation and stability after World War II and the Great Depression. It has since grown to 188 member countries.
- The IMF aims to facilitate international trade, reduce unemployment, maintain exchange rate stability, and make financial resources available to member countries.
- The IMF implements policies of conditionality on its lending to countries and has various facilities to provide loans with or without interest. It also established data dissemination standards to improve transparency among members.
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The IMF monitors and makes policy recommendations regarding the international monetary system. It provides loans to countries experiencing economic crises or issues with their balance of payments. The IMF works to ensure stability in the international monetary system to facilitate balanced economic growth and development.
The main purpose of this research is to study and highlight that central bank of Jordan (CBJ) plays an important role in economic development. The objective of the financial organization shall be to keep up financial and money stability, to confirm the interchangeability of the Dinar, and to contribute in achieving the banking and money stability within the Kingdom likewise as promoting sustained economic process in accordance with the overall economic policies of the government. To achieve the above- mentioned objectives, CBJ assumes many tasks portrayed in drawing and implementing the financial policy within the Kingdom through an integrated system of monetary policy instruments, setting a evaluation policy of the Dinar compatible with the Jordanian economy, maintaining and managing the Kingdom’s reserves of gold and foreign currencies, regulation credit within the Jordanian economy so as to realize financial and money stability likewise as comprehensive economic process, and issue and regulation bank notes and coins. Subsequently, the central bank plays necessary role within the economic resource allocation of the country. The banking industry may be a major issue that affects the organization of social and economic life cycle within the economies of the planet. it is thought about as associate degree indicator of economic and social growing.. Also, developed financial set up ought to be characterized by the existence of a contemporary and complicated banking industry that contributes to achieving economic balance. It conjointly encourages domestic and foreign investment through the banking system’s ability to states. The aim of the banking industry is to draw in savings domestically and abroad, and direct those savings into productive investment. As a result, this contributes to the accomplishment of economic and social development method, and conjointly facilitates investment activity.
Swedbank was founded in 1820, as Sweden’s first savings bank was established. Today, our heritage is visible in that we truly are a bank for each and every one and in that we still strive to contribute to a sustainable development of society and our environment. We are strongly committed to society as a whole and keen to help bring about a sustainable form of societal development. Our Swedish operations hold an ISO 14001 environmental certification, and environmental work is an integral part of our business activities.
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devilish inflationary monetary policy.
The global economic crisis has had unprecedented and wide-ranging effects. While governments have tried stimulus measures, rising debt and uncertainty continue to hamper recovery efforts. One potential solution is for governments to print money and allocate it to reduce various stakeholder debt levels, up to 25% of the existing money supply, provided inflation and exchange rates can be managed. This approach would require international coordination and testing in the most affected country first before broader implementation. It could help make economic systems viable again by improving liquidity and removing gloom while maintaining functional financial systems.
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The document discusses several areas where restructuring of the IMF may be required in the current context of globalization. It suggests that the IMF should 1) make crisis prevention and resolution more integrated, 2) clarify its relationship and roles with the World Bank to avoid overlap, and 3) reduce extraneous roles like work on money laundering. It also recommends reforms to governance structures, surveillance and analysis procedures, lending programs, and financing sources.
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Bangladesh’s Rice production is right on the equilibrium between demand and supply. However, this is a notable achievement for Bangladesh. Yet, in order to maintain this achievement and growing, Bangladesh has to immediately address the population issue, adopt policy to strict the conversion of arable land to non-arable activities, to have focused usage policy of natural gas adhered to agriculture, and moreover finding new technology for irrigation and replacing the usage of underground water. Unless, these issues are addressed in immediate effect, today’s Food Security in Bangladesh may not prevail for long.
The document discusses international trade trends for Bangladesh and compares it to global and regional trade patterns. It finds that while Bangladesh's trade has grown, it is becoming more dependent on exports to large developed economies like the EU and US, making it vulnerable to economic downturns in those markets. Recent forecasts project Bangladesh's economic growth will slow to around 6% in the next two years due to declining demand from its major export partners in Europe and North America as they continue to struggle with economic crises.
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1. The document discusses the scope and importance of research and development (R&D) for a bank.
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1) Malaysia has a vision called "Vision 2020" where the country aims to become a developed nation like America by the year 2020. This vision is widely known and supported by Malaysians from all walks of life.
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A manager must be an effective leader by maintaining good human relationships with employees, delegating authority, making structured decisions, articulating a clear vision, and motivating employees. Specifically, the manager should know employees, trust them, not micromanage, develop policies from unstructured situations, delegate repetitive tasks, communicate the organizational vision enthusiastically, and be especially careful to motivate employees in a saturated job market where replacing staff is difficult. Effective leadership requires balancing management duties with developing people.
1) Stress testing is a technique used to determine the impact of exceptional but plausible risk factor changes on a financial institution's assets and liabilities. It helps quantify vulnerabilities and ensure sufficient capital.
2) Bangladesh Bank has designed a stress testing framework for banks and financial institutions to proactively manage risks. The initial framework focuses on simple sensitivity and scenario analysis of interest rates, collateral values, non-performing loans, stock prices, foreign exchange rates, and liquidity.
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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is the world's largest business organization, representing over 6 million companies in over 100 countries. It aims to promote trade, open markets, and the free flow of capital globally. ICC activities include international commercial arbitration, setting standards for international trade, and advocating on behalf of business to intergovernmental organizations. It was founded in 1919 and is based in Paris, with national committees providing a direct link to governments worldwide.
1. The document discusses financial inclusion, which aims to provide affordable financial services to disadvantaged and low-income groups. It has become an objective for many central banks in developing nations.
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1) When selecting a CSR initiative, choose a problem that affects many people and has challenged society for a long time, rather than a small, localized issue.
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Economic Control or Reform or Structural Change : Occupy the 1?
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Economic Control or Reform or Structural Change
In gloomy days, people seek for hope. The world where global growth will be powered by
of financial markets is in a critical junction with emerging economies, rather than held back by
its economies long battered by the worsening them. In this current world economy the
euro crisis. While chunk of investors ventured emerging markets are not at all secluded from
out from safe‐haven bonds into riskier assets; financial shocks those have been occurring
concurrently, stock prices are bumping and especially since 2007‐08 crises or even ahead of
America’s economy is limping along and the that in the advanced economies of the world. In
summer slump in share prices while consumer most cases, emerging economies with no fault
spending has been forecasted to go weak. On of their own face twisting troubles to run their
this very moment world’s decision makers are economy smoothly at the time of financial crisis
yet to finalize a concrete way out or an effective in the advanced economies. In practice, the
strategy towards sustainable long‐term central banks of emerging markets ensure
recovery. Still the world citizens are waiting for themselves through buying bonds from
a direction with deep hope. This paper is going advanced economies which in turn cause the
to discuss some of the latest hot talks around emerging markets to run with deficit budget.
the globe and precisely about the risks of This deficit in the emerging markets is financed
current global financial systems and operations. by taking loan from their commercial banks
Firstly, the main problem of the current global creating liquidity crisis and slow growth
financial system has been discussed in light of prospect for the respective country. To solve
contemporary phenomenon. And how the this dilemma, global liquidity insurance has
central banks of different economies and the been suggested and it would force a quicker
overall global financial system interacts adjustment of global imbalances instead of the
between them and what duties are binding the Bretton Woods system that prevails in global
central banks to keep respective economies off economy currently. In the above mentioned
the heat of global financial risks or meltdown. current financial system exists globally, central
Afterwards, this paper has presented evidence banks act as the fiscal agents of respective
of risks from current financial risks and how it governments. They also issue notes to be used
has hurt the economies of the world, both at as legal tender, supervise the operations of the
large economies as well as at emerging ones. commercial banking system, and implement
Later paragraphs discusses on a paper monetary policy. By increasing or decreasing the
presented by a Professor. Lately in Aug (2011), supply of money and credit, they affect interest
Cornell University’s Eswar Prasad (Prasad), the rates, thereby influencing the economy…Their
Tolani Senior Professor, offered a fresh road aim is to maintain conditions that support a high
map to reform the international monetary level of employment and production and stable
system. He argued that emerging markets domestic prices. Central banks also take part in
should be protected from financial shocks cooperative international currency
through a global insurance scheme rather than arrangements designed to help stabilize or
by “self‐insuring” through purchasing regulate the foreign exchange rates of
government securities of the advanced 1
participating countries.
economies.
All Financial Institutions (FIs) and commercial
Current Global Financial System
banks of any country are licensed and insured
Despite the current economic turbulence, the
by respective central banks in this process.
emerging markets are going through some rapid
These banks and FIs keep deposit and buy
growth. In future we are moving into a world
government treasury bill/bond from respective
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3. central banks. Whereas the central banks of growth rate. Inflation makes life costlier and
emerging markets are insured through buying slower pace of industrialization adds more and
bond from the advanced economies central more unemployed people to these economies
banks i.e. Federal Reserve System. In the every year. So in today’s world economy World
current arrangement, the central banks of Bank and IMF (International Monetary Fund)
advanced economies can easily avail pull of debt plays the role of financial facilitator along with
through selling government bonds to the central Central Banks. If we look back the emergence of
banks of emerging economies incurring very low World Bank and IMF it all started from the
cost of fund to finance their huge budget deficit ‘Bretton Woods System’.
every year. Through this process the advanced
markets have already taken a huge debt making The Role of World Bank and IMF
them overburdened. For example, Currently This Bretton Woods system of monetary
Italy has 120% debt of their total GDP and which management established the rules for
is the highest in the world. This high level of commercial and financial relations among the
public debt has even increased the cost of world’s major industrial states in the mid 20th
public borrowing of such countries, slowing century. The Bretton Woods system was the
down the country’s growth rate (to 0.3% in Italy first example of a fully negotiated monetary
and also one of the lowest in the world). In this order intended to govern monetary relations
regard EU has gathered bailout fund to protect among independent nationstates… Setting up a
the slumping economies (i.e. Greece, Italy, system of rules, institutions, and procedures to
Ireland and Portugal). But this process cannot regulate the international monetary system, the
go on. On the other hand, unlike developed planners at Bretton Woods established the IMF
economies, emerging economies finance their and the International Bank for Reconstruction
budget deficit through taking loans at a much and Development (IBRD), which today is part of
higher rate from their own commercial banks the World Bank Group. These organizations
creating liquidity crises in the economy. These became operational in 1945 after a sufficient
commercial banks keep required deposits in the number of countries had ratified the agreement.
central banks at a much lower rate whereas The chief features of the Bretton Woods system
they collect deposits from the households and were an obligation for each country to adopt a
institutions at a significantly higher rate due to monetary policy that maintained the exchange
lesser and lesser flow of money in the rate by tying its currency to the US dollar and
economies resulted from everlasting and the ability of the IMF to bridge temporary
increasing budget deficit every year. Again, 2
imbalances of payments . These organizations
emerging countries require huge fund from the were established with different aims. According
Bretton Woods organizations (WB, IFC) for to the World Bank, “The World Bank is a vital
different development projects they undertake source of financial and technical assistance to
for infrastructural improvement in their own developing countries around the world. Our
countries. These economies take huge loan from mission is to fight poverty with passion and
the organizations at a high cost of fund. From professionalism for lasting results and to help
every aspect they are bound to take the fund as people help themselves and their environment
they lack the same due to injecting fund in by providing resources, sharing knowledge,
buying bonds of advanced economies to insure building capacity and forging partnerships in the
respective countries economy or financing their 3
own deficit budgets. Consequently, above public and private sectors.”
incidents those take place in the emerging The World Bank offers a wide range of lending
economies lead the banks and FIs of emerging and non‐lending solutions to meet the world’s
markets lending money to their customers (both development challenges i.e. investment and
corporate and retail users) at a much higher rate development policy operations, banking
than any developed a country. This high cost of products, trust funds and grants, guarantees &
fund affect the emerging economies even worse non‐lending activities etc. On the other wing,
than before causing both Inflation and slower according to IFC, “IFC, a member of the World
Bank Group, is the largest global development
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institution focused on the private sector in economy bonds. Some economies limit their
developing countries. We create opportunity for sterilization costs through financial repression.
people to escape poverty and improve their Such insurance may also prove expensive in the
lives. We do so by providing financing to help long run in terms of an eventual capital loss
businesses employ more people and supply from the anticipated depreciation of advanced
essential services, by mobilizing capital from economy currencies relative to those of
others, and by delivering advisory services to emerging markets or if advanced economy
US Bond sold to Selected Countries in 2011 [Billions of USD]
Country Mar 2011 Apr 2011 May 2011 Jun 2011 Jul 2011 Aug 2011
China (main) 1144.9 1152.6 1159.8 1165.5 1135.3 1137.0
Brazil 193.5 206.9 211.4 207.1 210.0 210.0
Taiwan 156.1 154.5 154.4 154.4 154.3 150.3
Russia 127.8 125.4 115.2 110.7 100.7 97.1
India 39.8 42.1 41.0 38.9 37.9 37.7
Source: Department of the Treasury / Federal Reserve Board. Oct 18, 2011
4 governments drive down the real value of their
ensure sustainable development.” IFC provides
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investment services, advisory services and asset bonds through inflation. Accounting all these
management services to their clients in prevailing problems in the global economy, the
emerging markets. Both organizations also current system needs to be improved through
ensure guidance and accountability throughout taking several measures.
the project implementation. Any discrepancy of
agreement regarding diversification of fund, Global insurance scheme can be used as a role
meeting time limit, use of resources, corruption reversal of the current financial system. This
etc may lead to termination of contract. system has been talked by both Prashad, senior
professor of Cornell University and IMF.
Prasad’s ‘Global Insurance System’ Prasad’s insurance scheme would provide a
According to Prasad at heart it is a really simple safety net for countries that run into trouble
idea, till now, the issue hasn’t been framed this because of global shocks, often through no fault
way, and most people have simply looked at of their own. This scheme would also require
tweaking the existing financial system. But there countries with higher risk to pay higher
is a lot of institutional baggage out there that premiums up front, when they need the payout,
makes emerging markets reluctant to rely on no new strings would be attached to the money.
the IMF, even though the IMF is supposed to The plan would provide a temporary respite for
offer protection to emerging markets. His countries with deep fiscal problems. According
scheme strips the problem down to its bare to Prasad, global liquidity insurance scheme
essentials and what the solution ought to be. suggests possible solution that would provide a
His proposed ‘Self‐Insurance System’ that safety net for countries that run into trouble
prevails in the current global financial system because of global shocks, often through no fault
tends to be costly for emerging markets that of their own and a quicker adjustment of global
have to tie up resources in advanced economy imbalances. This scheme would also require
government bonds rather than using it to meet countries with higher risk to pay higher
their own physical capital investment needs. premiums up front, when they need the payout,
Another cost involves the higher yields paid on no new strings would be attached to the money.
government bonds used to sterilize the liquidity The plan would provide a temporary respite for
effects of foreign inflows relative to the low countries with deep fiscal problems. The major
yields earned on reserves held as advanced risk emerging markets face from rising financial
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5. openness is no longer related to dependence on mainly but not necessarily just for the emerging
foreign finance, but arise because capital flows markets. Each country would pay a modest
heighten homegrown vulnerabilities and entry fee between USD 1 and 10 billion,
exacerbate the costs of weak domestic policies depending on its size as measured by GDP, to
and institutions. Again, in the current system provide an initial capital base. It would then pay
the developed economies can finance its large an annual premium for buying insurance that it
budget deficit by selling government bonds at a could call upon in the event of a crisis… A
much lower rate as to the emerging economies country running large budget deficits or
those insure themselves against financial crisis. continuing to accumulate large stocks of
But Prasad’s plan would force the developed external debt in successive years would pay
economies to be disciplined in their fiscal rising premiums in each of those years. In this
policies and control their budget deficits along way, their contributions to rising global risks
with reducing the demand for US or EU 8
would be accounted for. The premiums
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government bonds by the emerging markets. accumulated through the above mentioned
Prasad includes, emerging markets have cast off process would be invested in a mixed portfolio
their original sin – their external liabilities are no of government bonds of the US, Euro area and
longer dominated by foreign‐currency debt and Japan. In return, the Federal Reserve, ECB and
have shifted sharply towards direct investment Bank of Japan would be obliged to backstop the
and portfolio equity. Their external assets are pool’s lines of credit in the event of a global
increasingly concentrated in foreign exchange crisis. This would simply institutionalize ex‐ante
reserves. Given the deteriorating public debt swap arrangements of the sort that major
trajectories of reserve currency economic areas, central banks opened up ex‐post during the
the long‐term risk on emerging markets’ crisis to provide liquidity to other central banks.
external balance sheets is shifting to the asset The insurance payout would be in the form of a
side. Still, emerging markets are looking for credit line open for a year rather than an
more insurance against balance of payments outright grant. The interest rate would be non‐
crises even as adverse debt dynamics in punitive and based on the yields on short‐term
advanced economies increase the potential government securities in the countries backing
costs of self‐insurance through reserve up the insurance pool. The country drawing on
accumulation. Prasad proposes a mechanism for this insurance would be required to pay back
global liquidity insurance that would meet this the borrowed amount within the one‐year
need with fewer domestic policy distortions and period in the same hard currency that it gets for
force a quicker adjustment of global imbalances. the loan. So if a country’s currency depreciated
It also argues that the big risks most emerging in the ensuing year, it would have a higher debt
markets face from rising financial openness are burden in domestic currency terms, which to
no longer related to dependence on foreign some extent would be a disincentive for the
finance but arise because capital flows heighten country to persist with bad policies under the
home‐grown vulnerabilities and exacerbate the protection provided by the credit line. The
costs of weak domestic policies and country would not be able to buy additional
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institutions. To make the short term solution
work, Prasad has also suggested required the initial draw from the insurance pool.
reserve that would be desirable to keep by the Premiums would be raised substantially if a
emerging economies. Conventional criteria country wished to renew its insurance in the
suggest a level adequate to cover 6 months of next period after drawing on the credit line
imports or the stock of short‐term external debt without any improvements in its policies. Thus,
maturing over the next year (the Greenspan‐ the insurance would only be suitable for
Guidotti rule). By these criteria, most major liquidity crises. This system would also bring
emerging markets had accumulated more than broader benefits i.e. help discipline advanced
sufficient reserves by the early 2000s. The economies’ fiscal policies by raising their
insurance pool suggested by Prasad for the borrowing costs. This would also tamp down
world’s major economies would be formed— private capital flows to emerging markets, an
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6. added benefit for those countries in that group the banking system, said Ajai Chopra, the
concerned the low cost debt in the US and other deputy director of the IMF’s European
advanced economies is flowing Department. The IMF believes a deposit
disproportionately to them and causing insurance scheme should be introduced in
complications in their domestic macroeconomic parallel to an increased harmonization of
management. This scheme would help get the deposit insurance schemes in the member
incentives right. First, it reduces the incentives states to ensure sovereign problems don’t
for emerging market economies to selfinsure; in trigger destabilizing bank runs, he said. The
the event of a liquidity crisis, they would have scheme could be funded by a harmonized bank
access to a large insurance pool with no levy on selected bank liabilities or a financial
conditions attached. This would allow them to 9
activity tax, he said . Limitation No model can
conduct better macroeconomic policies rather perfectly capture all the idiosyncratic factors
than focus on accumulating reserves. Second, it that will constrain or boost an economy’s
mitigates the risk of spiraling global development of the world overnight. One of the
macroeconomic imbalances and the attendant most significant matters regarding this
risks of crises and their spillover effects. Third, it proposed model is, re‐investment of the fund in
creates a transparent mechanism by which the developed economy, as said, ‘the premiums
global costs of a country’s policies would be accumulated through the above mentioned
internalized to some extent or, at a minimum, process would be invested in a mixed portfolio
made more visible. Lately, IMF proposed an ‘EU‐ of government bonds of the US, Euro area and
wide deposit insurance scheme’ who called for a Japan’. Prasad’s theory of re‐investment of the
scheme a more coordinated regulation of the fund in the developed economy is in contrast, to
continent’s banks to prevent contradictory the idea that, if the developed countries fail, the
national regulation from exacerbating its debt developed country’s bonds won’t help
crisis. It will work as a common bank crisis protecting the economy of the emerging
management system, a supra‐national countries.
resolution regime and common deposit
insurance rules would help significantly stabilize
Endnotes: An Article by:
1. http://www.answers.com/topic/central‐bank Aziz, Monsurul (2011); Officer R&D, MTB
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods Jahan, Afsana (2011); Senior Officer R&D, MTB
3. http://web.worldbank.org/wbsite/external/ Farukh, ANM (2011); Head of R&D, MTB
4. http://www1.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/
5. http://prasad.dyson.cornell.edu/doc/ Contact:
6. Ibid
7. Ibid
8. Ibid
9. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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