Small states, like the Caribbean countries, have been negatively affected by recent “de-risking” policies implemented by international banks, with particularly damaging consequences on correspondent banking relationships.
Book launch (2014-01-29) - "Dealing with the challenges of macro financial linkages in emerging markets" Click here to download To watch the book launch, click here or copy and paste…
The global financial crisis has reversed an expansionary trend of international activities by banks from advanced countries that had been at play for decades. From the late 1970s to…
From hedge funds to mortgage-backed securities, unregulated and risky activities have fallen out of favor since the Lehman Brothers debacle. Aggressive, casino-type behaviors and obscure transactions definitely played an…
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, financial market regulators have proposed a myriad of reforms to better govern the banking sector and to enhance its resilience to…
Squeezes of trade finance have been among the factors responsible for the recent collapse of trade. Those squeezes should be seen in the context of an overall “introspection” of…