Digital Finance’s Tentative Thumbs Up
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The Brookings Institute published the second annual edition of its digital and financial inclusion report surveying two dozen low and ...
Financial Inclusion’s Anguished Acceptance Angles
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Mainstream global banks through the IIF and microfinance provider Accion International released a survey of two dozen emerging market experiences ...
The OECD’s Small Firm Finance Finagling
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The joint industrial and emerging economy OECD issued a gloomy report on post-crisis small enterprise finance through banks and urged ...
Offshore NDFs’ Dubious Deliverables
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After calculating non-deliverable forwards, where non-resident investors can take synthetic positions in controlled currencies, as a “tiny fraction” of foreign ...
Bank Conditions’ Crude Unrelenting Cry
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The IIF’s Q1 bank officer sentiment index drawn from 150 responses showed another point and a half drop to 48 ...
Bank Lending’s Lurking Doom Loop
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The IIF’s Q3 scan of 135 banks’ credit climate in major emerging market regions modeled on the US Federal Reserve ...
Europe’s Baneful Banking Structures
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The feature chapters in the IMF’s semi-annual Global Financial Stability Report focus on the mixed record of post-crisis emerging Eurozone ...
Credit Default Swaps’ Naked Truth Trail
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The IMF’s April Global Financial Stability Report in the wake of capital controls endorsed for Cyprus’ “exceptional circumstances” directly challenged ...
Global Bank Regulation’s Second Best Solution
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On the eve of the IMF-World Bank annual gathering a Brookings Institute working group issued a report advocating a “second-best” ...
Financial Stability Reports’ Grading Jitters
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An IMF working paper finds “major drawbacks” in the central bank financial stability reports now issued semiannually and yearly in ...
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