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Like in many other countries, inclusive finance for inclusive growth has become a policy issue in Bangladesh following the global financial crisis in 2008. Over the past 10 years, intensity of financial deepening and access to financial services has increased. Both banks and microfinance...
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Establishing financially inclusive ecosystems for low-income clients, including small and medium enterprises, has become a rising global concern. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the World Bank estimate that around 2.7 billion adults worldwide do not have access to credit,...
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Financial inclusion is receiving increasing attention as having the potential to contribute to economic and financial development while at the same time fostering more inclusive growth and greater income equality. However, although substantial progress has been made, there is still much to...
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banking performance in four Asian economies: the People's Republic of China (PRC); Hong Kong, China; Singapore; and Taipei …,China. Both the PRC and Hong Kong, China operate under a fragmented financial regulatory structure, while Singapore and Taipei …
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most attacked industry globally. It is thus only logical that Singapore's regulators have identified cybersecurity as the … the implications of Singapore's cybersecurity regulation for domestic FinTech firms and the impact of prospective …, Singapore is in an excellent spot to lead by example in the Asia-Pacific region, through developing and implementing novel …
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banking performance in four Asian economies: the People's Republic of China (PRC); Hong Kong, China; Singapore; and Taipei …, China. Both the PRC and Hong Kong, China operate under a fragmented financial regulatory structure, while Singapore and …
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Using an international sample of more than 65,000 rating actions by Fitch, Moody's and S&P, we analyze the effect of the Dodd-Frank Act on credit ratings. We document that (i) rating report content changes significantly after Dodd-Frank and (ii) show, by exploiting within firm-quarter variation,...
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The total effect of a regulatory change consists of direct effects and indirect effects (spillovers), but the standard difference-in-difference approach measures only direct effects and ignores potential indirect effects. By examining the short-sale aggressiveness during the 2007 full repeal of...
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In recent years, financial regulators have come under increasing judicial scrutiny for conducting inadequate cost/benefit assessments in advance of significant reforms. One facet of this scrutiny is judicial skepticism towards the proper role for regulatory experimentation (and the real option...
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