1. Introduction 1. - 2. The Barbados International Business and Financial Services Sector 9. - 3. Regulation of the Barbados International Business and Financial Services Sector 21. - 4. Incremental Costs and Benefits of Enhancing the IFS Regulatory Regime in Barbados 29. - 5. Overall...

Several countries in Asia and Middle East established new age International Financial Centres e.g. Singapore, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar to name a few. India, which is one of the largest and fastest growing major economies in the world, established its maiden International Financial Services Centre...

In general, a financial centre can be defined as ‘a place in which there is a high concentration of managed financial institutions and financial markets performing activities which are internationally recognised for their management efficacy, efficiency, and legal standing.Australia's...

In general, a financial centre can be defined as ‘a place in which there is a high concentration of financial institutions and financial markets performing activities which are internationally recognised for their efficacy, efficiency, and legal standing.Australia's financial sector relative...

Das Cluster-Konzept hebt die Vorteilhaftigkeit des lokalen Umfeldes für die Produktivität, Innovationskraft und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von konkurrierenden und verbundenen Unter¬nehmen hervor. Durch die Anwendung des Cluster-Konzepts auf das Finanzzentrum Frankfurt, in dem sich die...

This paper analyses the results of the financial services negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent policy regimes in many developing and transition...

Distance, as a proxy for trade barriers, is found in many studies to matter even for weightless cross-border financial investments and lending, possibly due to the presence of information asymmetries. Its importance is tested in this paper using exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s...