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Islamic Finance and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)
Kyriakos-Saad, Nadim - 2016
The money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) risks associated with conventional finance are generally well identified and understood by the relevant national authorities. There is, however, no common understanding of ML/TF risks associated with Islamic finance. Some are likely to be...
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Building Supervisory Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa - An Analytical Framework
Quintyn, Marc - 2007
Current trends in financial sector development in sub-Saharan Africa are prompting policymakers to focus on the design of appropriate supervisory structures. Against the backdrop of worldwide efforts to remodel supervisory structures, this paper develops an analytical framework for designing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777767
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The Accountability of Financial Sector Supervisors Principles and Practice
Quintyn, Marc; Hüpkes, Eva H.G; Taylor, Michael - 2021
Policymakers' uneasiness about granting independence to financial sector regulators stems to a large extent from the lack of familiarity with, and elusiveness of, the concept of accountability. This paper gives operational content to accountability and argues that it is possible to do so in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318072
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Can Financial Soundness Indicators Help Predict Financial Sector Distress?
Pietrzak, Marcin - 2022
This paper shows how the role of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) in financial surveillance can be usefully enhanced. Drawing from different statistical techniques, the paper illustrates that FSIs generate signals that can accurately detect, with 4 to 12 quarters lead, emerging financial...
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Cyber Risk Surveillance : A Case Study of Singapore
Goh, Joseph - 2020
illustrates these techniques by applying them to Singapore. As an advanced economy with a complex financial system and rapid … adoption of fintech, Singapore serves as a good case study. We place our results in the context of recent cybersecurity …
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Experiences with Macroprudential Policy — Five Case Studies
Darbar, Salim M. - 2015
Zealand, Singapore, and Sweden). The case studies describe the institutional framework, its evolution, the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019024
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Singapore's Export Elasticities : A Disaggregated Look into the Role of Global Value Chains and Economic Complexity
Arbatli, Elif C. - 2016
Singapore is one of the world's most open economies, with the size of its trade reaching about 350 percent of its GDP …. With the rise of highly diversified cross-border production networks, Singapore has come to play an integral role in the …, using disaggregate industry/product level trade data, we revisit Singapore's export elasticities and find that growing …
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Did Output Recover from the Asian Crisis?
Cerra, Valerie; Saxena, Sweta C. - 2005
This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...
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Banking and Trading
Ratnovski, Lev - 2012
We study the effects of a bank's engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long-term oriented, with high implicit capital, and low risk (thanks to the law of large numbers). Trading is transactions-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with...
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Building Blocks for Effective Macroprudential Policies in Latin America : Institutional Considerations
Jácome, Luis Ignacio - 2012
An increasing number of countries - including in Latin America - are reforming their financial stability frameworks in the aftermath of the financial crisis, in order to establish a stronger macroprudential policy function. This paper analyzes existing arrangements for financial stability in...
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