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Introduction It is an honour to speak at this 30th Annual Bahamas Business Outlook and to reflect on the related themes of “recover, adapt and advance.” I would like to focus my presentation on the role of the financial sector in this process, from the perspective of transformation and growth, and to relate this to … Read more
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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining today’s conference call. The report we present today is novel in two respects: First, the report benefited from the unique data collection on covid-19 related support measures under Recommendation ESRB/2020/8 issued by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) in May 2020. This support has a total nominal value … Read more
I want to thank the Institute of International Finance for inviting me to join this discussion. Let me start by noting that these are my own views and do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Open Market Committee. Climate change is already imposing substantial economic costs and is projected … Read more
  Author: Antonia Di Lorenzo, Finance Correspondent March 11, 2021 Around 90 percent of Gibraltar’s Financial Services business is UK-facing and with Brexit looming, the Gibraltar Government sought and achieved not only inclusion in the Withdrawal Agreement via the Gibraltar Protocol, but also, more recently, a bespoke arrangement that guarantees market access to financial services … Read more
Financial services investment into India has soared over the past five years, with foreign investors particularly attracted to fintech opportunities in the country despite a slowdown in projects in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of financial services foreign direct investment (FDI) projects reached 36 last year (January to November data) from 14 … Read more
The world over has seen a marked increase in fraud and money laundering during the Covid-19 pandemic. At a recent roundtable, industry experts discussed how the financial industry is coming together to collaborate and deploy innovative, network-level solutions to trace and prevent financial crime across the digital economy. Panellists: Mark Courtney, chief product officer, Cifas … Read more