Significant progress has been made in addressing the fault lines that led to the global financial crisis. The European Union (EU) is gradually implementing a new financial architecture - aiming to achieve...
Latvia in 2003-2008 saw rapid increases in the levels of consumer debt growing at an average annual rate of 80 percent in years 2004-2006 and then slowing to 39 percent and 7 percent in 2007 and 2008...
Latvia in 2003-2008 saw rapid increases in the levels of consumer debt growing at an average annual rate of 80 percent in years 2004-2006 and then slowing to 39 percent and 7 percent in 2007 and 2008...
Liquidity and solvency have been called the "heavenly twins" of banking (Goodhart, Charles, 'Liquidity Risk Management', Financial Stability Review -- Special Issue on Liquidity, Banque de France, No...
The payments and securities settlement system is the infrastructure (comprising institutions, instruments, rules, procedures, standards, and technical means) established to effect the transfer of monetary...
The objective of this paper is not to review the pros and cons of deposit insurance systems, but to focus, rather narrowly, on the recent adoption of a deposit insurance system (DIS) in Russia, the rationale...
These proceedings encapsulate the key messages emerging from the three-day Knowledge Economy Forum V (KEF V) on Innovation and Technology Absorption for Growth, held in Prague, Czech Republic on March...
Franchising and privatization; by Antony W. Dnes. Tradable property rights to water; by Mateen Thobani. Privatization through broad-based ownership strategies; by Stuart Bell. Bettering banking: privatize...