Download or read book Offshore Financial Center Program A Progress Report written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL

Download or read book Offshore Financial Center Program A Progress Report written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL

Download or read book Offshore Financial Centers The Assessment Program A Progress Report written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-02-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL

Download or read book Offshore Financial Centers The Assessment Program A Progress Report and the Future of the Program written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL

Download or read book Offshore Financial Centers written by International Monetary Fund and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper provides an update and overview of the Offshore Financial Center (OFC) program. At the time of the November 2003 review of the OFC program, Directors indicated that the Board should conduct the next review of the program in 2-3 years and be updated periodically on the progress in implementing the OFC program. Progress reports have been issued to the Board annually, the most recent in February 2006"--IMF information page summary.

Download or read book Offshore Financial Centers Report on the Assessment Program and Proposal for Integration with the Financial Sector Assessment Program Supplementary Information written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This supplement reviews the data received thus far and the progress made by participating jurisdictions in their dissemination efforts. Data for major jurisdictions that declined to participate are also provided where it is available from published sources. In addition, data on a sample of advanced economies are provided for comparative purposes. The framework identified a minimum set of variables for dissemination and recommended that jurisdictions publish data on those variables although jurisdictions could choose to publish more. Tables 2 and 5 to 13 provide the data received on those variables. The framework also identified additional variables that were to be provided to the Fund to help Fund staff monitor developments in financial centers.

Download or read book Offshore Financial Centers and Regulatory Competition written by Andrew P. Morriss and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Offshore Financial Centers and Regulatory Competition, a group of leading international law and finance experts argues that offshore jurisdictions have become key players in corporate finance and captive insurance markets.

Download or read book Banking Secrecy and Offshore Financial Centers written by Mary Alice Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the issues surrounding banking secrecy and confiscation of criminal proceeds. The book examines the existing legal agreements at the international, regional and national levels and their interaction in the substantive areas of confiscation, anti-money laundering and banking confidentiality laws. It looks at how these agreements have been applied in offshore financial centers and demonstrates that despite a number of legally binding UN Conventions as well as global anti-money laundering recommendations, the implementation of them is often lukewarm by those Parties who have ratified the Convention and adopted obligations, because of this the confiscation legislation is incompatible with strict banking confidentiality laws. The work draws on the experience of criminologists to offer critical insight into the legislative frameworks designed to deal with banking secrecy and confiscation in offshore financial centers. It goes on to offer suggestions for measures that may be taken by major economies to circumvent the lack of cooperation by offshore financial centers as intolerance towards money laundering grows in light of recent political and economic events. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Law, Finance and Criminology.

Download or read book Havens in a Storm written by J. C. Sharman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries including France, Britain, Japan, and the United States, however, wished to stanch the offshore flow of domestic taxable capital. Since 1998 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has attempted to impose common tax regulations on more than three dozen small states. In a fascinating book based on fieldwork and interviews in twenty-two countries in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, J. C. Sharman shows how the struggle was decided in favor of the tax havens, which eventually avoided common regulation. No other book on tax havens is based on such extensive fieldwork, and no other author has had access to so many of the key decision makers who played roles in the conflict between onshore and offshore Sharman suggests that microstates succeeded in their struggle with great powers because of their astute deployment of reputation and effective rhetorical self-positioning. In effect, they persuaded a transnational audience that the OECD was being untrue to its own values by engaging in a hypocritical, bullying exercise inimical to free competition.

Download or read book Rethinking Bank Regulation written by James R. Barth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a new database on bank regulation in over 150 countries. It offers a comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank regulation on the operation of banks and assesses the validity of the Basel Committee's influential approach to bank regulation.

Download or read book Report of the Managing Director to the International Monetary and Financial Committee on the IMF s Policy Agenda written by International Monetary Fund. Policy Development and Review Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL

Download or read book International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2005 written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-09-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annual Report 2005 to the Board of Governors reviews the IMF's activities and policies during the financial year (May 1, 2004, through April 30, 2005). The main sections cover country, global, and regional surveillance; strengthening surveillance and crisis prevention; IMF program support and crisis resolution; the Fund's role in low-income countries; financial operations and policies; technical assistance and training; governance and management of the IMF; and cooperation, communication and outreach. Besides the full financial statements for the year, appendixes cover international reserves, financial operations and transactions, principal policy decisions, relations with other international organizations, press communiqués of advisory committees, Executive Directors and their voting power, and changes in the Executive Board's membership.

Download or read book Offshore Financial Centers written by Internationaler Währungsfonds and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper updates Executive Directors on the progress since February 2005 in implementing the second phase of the offshore financial center (OFC) program as agreed in November 2003 (see PIN No. 03/138 at http://www.imf.org). At that time, Directors recognized that OFCs could pose prudential and financial integrity risks to the international financial system. In this context, Directors agreed that the monitoring of OFCs' activities and their compliance with supervisory and integrity standards should become a standard component of the financial sector work of the Fund. They also requested periodic updates on the progress with implementation of the program. Earlier updates were provided in March 2004 (Offshore Financial Centers-The Assessment Program-An Update) and February 2005 (Offshore Financial Centers-The Assessment Program-A Progress Report). With the completion of the first round of assessments, staff have begun implementing the second phase of the program.

Download or read book Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund Thirty Seventh Issue written by International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirty-Seventh Issue of Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund includes decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, as well as selected documents to which frequent reference is made in the current activities of the Fund. In addition, it includes documents relating to the IMF, the United Nations, and other international organizations.

Download or read book Offshore Finance and Small States written by W. Vlcek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One path towards development taken by a number of small jurisdictions is the establishment of an offshore financial centre. This text analyses the actual economic contribution for several small Caribbean economies and the impact to continued operation arising from an international initiative for the exchange of taxpayer information.

Download or read book Offshore Finance written by Hilton McCann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is estimated that up to sixty percent of the world's money may be located offshore, where half of all financial transactions are said to take place; however, there is a perception that secrecy about offshore is encouraged to obfuscate tax evasion and money laundering. McCann provides a detailed analysis of the global offshore environment, outlining the extent of the information available and how that information might be used in assessing the quality of individual jurisdictions, as well as examining whether some of the perceptions about 'offshore' are valid. He analyses the ongoing work of the Financial Stability Forum, the Financial Action Task Force, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The book also offers some suggestions as to what the future might hold for offshore finance.

Download or read book Finance Masters A Brief History Of International Financial Centers In The Last Millennium written by Olivier Coispeau and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thousand years ago, a handful of dynamic medieval city states developed trade at the frontier of capitalism. Their unique commercial ambition led to the emergence of finance capitals of international significance: Finance Masters. From the 11th century onward, international financial hubs, led by astute and bold merchant bankers and visionary leaders, inspired the numerous innovations that triggered economic revolutions in the last millennium and laid the ground for modern finance. This book explores not only classic financial centers, but also offshore financial centers and gambling centers to connect them to contemporary finance, and it also delves into the unique function of leading financial hubs to execute financial transactions over a wide geographical domain and transform the world economy.The 2008-2009 Great Recession showed that working on fundamental issues such as market structure, pricing mechanism, and games was indeed necessary but probably still insufficient to create the antibodies needed to mitigate systemic risk and prevent the irrational exuberance capable of triggering devastating economic crash. In the continuation of the Theory of Moral Sentiments written by Adam Smith in 1759, seventeen years before his Wealth of Nations, it seems a deeper historical understanding of the key success factors which quietly assembled in the backyard of our market economy can be a useful lifeline. This book aims to explain the widening gulf that emerged over time between economics, regulatory and ethical considerations necessary to a smoother functioning of markets.Finance Masters is also a book about the extraordinary men who led the evolution of modern finance with the innovations that changed the course of economic history. This book tries to capture the salient factors behind the geography of finance hubs from the early fairs in medieval England and Venice to Wall Street in contemporary New York. The development and the legacy of those 'Finance Masters' deserve more attention to reflect upon the evolution of incumbent players and better understand their possible future. This book a must read for economics and finance students and young finance professionals, who seek a broader and better understanding of the origins of modern economics.