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Financial Intelligence Units : An Overview

International Monetary Fund - 2004

Over the past decade and beyond, the need for a modern anti-money-laundering strategy has become widely accepted internationally. Depriving criminal elements of the proceeds of their crimes has increasingly been seen as an important tool to combat drug trafficking and, more recently, as a...

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Financial System Abuse, Financial Crime and Money Laundering : Background Paper

International Monetary Fund - 2001

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Macroeconomic Fundamentals, Price Discovery and Volatility Dynamics in Emerging Markets

International Monetary Fund - 2009

This study characterizes volatility dynamics in external emerging bond markets and examines how prices and volatility respond to news about macroeconomic fundamentals. As in mature bond markets, macroeconomic surprises in external emerging bond markets are found to a¤ect both conditional...

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Asset Prices and Time-Varying Risk

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Observers have often characterized asset markets as being subject to periods of tranquility and periods of turbulence. Until recently, however, researchers were unable to produce closed-form asset pricing formulas in a model environment of time-varying risk. Some work by Abel provided us with...

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Stock Prices, Real Exchange Rates, and Optimal Capital Accumulation

International Monetary Fund - 1988

This paper analyzes the dynamics of the real exchange rate and the price of equity for a small open economy using an optimizing model in which the process of capital accumulation entails adjustment costs. The analysis demonstrates that along an adjustment path toward long-run equilibrium,...

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Portugal; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Investor Protection, Disclosure, and Financial Literacy

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This technical note on Investor Protection, Disclosure, and Financial Literacy for Portugal explains investor protection and corporate governance. Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM) is the regulator in charge on ensuring compliance with disclosure issues as well as the corporate...

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Financial Sector Assessment Program : Malaysia - Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision

International Monetary Fund - 2013

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) employs a very well developed risk-focused regulatory and supervisory regime, consisting of … Principles (BCPs) in Malaysia has been undertaken as part of a joint International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Report on the … structure and development of the Malaysia financial sector; and (iv) meetings with individual banks, the banking association and …

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Financial Sector Assessment Program : Malaysia - IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation

International Monetary Fund - 2013

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), as the supervisor of the capital markets, has developed a robust supervisory … Malaysia (FIMM) should be implemented in full by carrying out on-site inspections as presently planned. At this stage in the …

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Malaysia; Publication of Financial Sector Assessment Program Documentationâ€”Detailed Assessment of Observance of the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

This report is an assessment of the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI) in Malaysia. The … and securities. The payment and security systems are elaborated along with the roles of Bursa Malaysia Securities Clearing …, Bursa Malaysia Depo, and the Bursa Malaysia Derivative Clearing mechanism. The Executive Board comments that Malaysia shows …

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Malaysia: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015

background on the structure of energy production and trade in Malaysia, and presents results from empirical analysis of the oil …

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