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Prospects for blockchain-based settlement frameworks as a resolution to the threat of de-risking to Caribbean financial systems
(ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, 2017-04)
Caribbean countries have been seriously impacted by the trend toward “de-risking” in the global financial system, and this is damaging to their economic security and the ability of Caribbean businesses to innovate. De-risking ...
The determinants of recent foreign bank penetration in Brazil
(2003-04)
This paper sets out to analyse the determinants of recent foreign bank investments in the Brazilian retail banking market and the strategies of the major European banks in Brazil. Since the recent wave of banking ...
The modernization of bank supervision
(1994-12)
This article analyses the main challenges involved in modernizing bank supervision in the light of recent banking crises and the changes currently taking place in the financial system at the international level. Within a ...
The dynamics of specialist development banking: the case of the agriculture development bank of Trinidad and Tobago
(ECLAC, 2007-05)
Introducción Internationally, development banks emerged as governments of many countries attempted to accelerate economic development by directing finance to achieve this objective.Accordingly, it was felt that development ...
The banking supervision agenda in Latin America
(2001-08)
The banking sector reforms that the countries of Latin America undertook in the 1990s were an important step forward, but proved insufficient. Although it is true that the region as a whole progressed significantly, ...
Venezuela: the Project Data Bank system in Venezuela
(1992-04-01)