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Payments and Securities Settlement Systems in Pakistan

World Bank - 2010

The South Asia Payments and Securities Settlement Initiative (SAPI) objective is to describe and assess the payments and securities settlement systems of the countries of South Asia with a view to identifying possible improvement measures in their safety, efficiency and integrity. To assure...

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Payments and Securities Clearance and Settlement Systems in Bolivia

World Bank - 2013

This report covers the Western Hemisphere payments and securities settlement forum center for Latin American monetary studies and focuses on several issues. The first section covers economic and financial markets overview of Belarus. This section covers the financial sector, capital markets, and...

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Financing Rapid Onset Natural Disaster Losses in India : A Risk Management Approach

World Bank - 2013

Twenty-two of India's 31 states are regarded as particularly prone to natural disasters: 55% of its land is vulnerable … to earthquake, 8% is vulnerable to cyclone, and 5% is vulnerable to flood. In light of India's vulnerability to growing … detailed review of India's catastrophe exposures. The goal of this project was to examine loss potentials from rapid onset …

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Integrity in mobile phone financial services : measures for mitigating risks from money laundering and terrorist financing

Chatain, Pierre-Laurent (contributor) - 2008

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Bank privatization and performance : empirical evidence from Nigeria

Beck, Thorsten - 2005

"Beck, Cull, and Jerome assess the effect of privatization on performance in a panel of Nigerian banks for the period 1990--2001. They find evidence of performance improvement in nine banks that were privatized, which is remarkable given the inhospitable environment for true financial...

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From Remittances to M-Payments

World Bank - 2012

Retail payment systems play an important role in the smooth functioning of any economy, and thus any inefficiency in the retail payments market can send negative effects cascading throughout the financial realm. The World Bank Global Payment Systems Survey 2010 has shown that inefficiencies...

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Retail Payment Costs and Savings in Kosovo

Central Bank of Kosovo (CBK); World Bank - 2022

(in its role as currency issuer and as the operator of the Automated Clearing House); 4 money transfer operators; and the …

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Central Bank Digital Currency : A Payments Perspective

World Bank - 2021

Payment and settlement systems and services have become vital components of the economic life of contemporary societies. Over the last decades, they have gone through several waves of reforms that have changed the landscape of the national payments system (NPS) in virtually every country in the...

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Payment Systems Worldwide - A Snapshot : Outcomes of the Global Payment Systems Survey 2010

World Bank - 2013

Global survey outcomes presented in this publication are divided into two main sections: Chapters I through VIII analyze the survey results and identify trends using various variable for cross-country comparisons. In addition to worldwide totals, three broad country characteristics exogenous to...

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Urban risk assessments : an approach for understanding disaster and climate risk in cities

2012

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