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Book Synopsis The Role of offshore Centers in International Financial Intermediation by : Marcel Cassard
Download or read book The Role of offshore Centers in International Financial Intermediation written by Marcel Cassard and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.
Book Synopsis The role of offshore centers in International Financial Intermediation by : Fondo Monetario Internacional
Download or read book The role of offshore centers in International Financial Intermediation written by Fondo Monetario Internacional and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Value of Offshore Banking to the Global Financial System by : John E. Baiden
Download or read book The Value of Offshore Banking to the Global Financial System written by John E. Baiden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Impact of Offshore Financial Centers on International Financial Markets by : Söhnke M. Bartram
Download or read book The Impact of Offshore Financial Centers on International Financial Markets written by Söhnke M. Bartram and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offshore centers have come to play an important role in the institutional structure of international financial markets. The article identifies two dimensions of dynamic competition that are relevant for an analysis of the offshore center phenomenon. First, there is competition between the offshore centers and one or more domestic financial markets. Second, there is dynamic competition among the offshore centers. The system of offshore centers generates a three-tier structure of international financial markets: domestic, foreign traditional, and offshore markets, both with respect to financial intermediaries as well as securities markets. This structure constitutes the institutional base for trends in the international financial markets which result in a process of increasing globalization.
Book Synopsis Offshore Financial Centers, Accounting Services and the Global Economy by : Don E. Garner
Download or read book Offshore Financial Centers, Accounting Services and the Global Economy written by Don E. Garner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-07-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new global climate of free enterprise has brought with it a proliferation of offshore financial centers that presumably have important roles to play in the emergent global economy. The air of secrecy that appears to pervade the activities of offshore financial centers may well slant or obscure any real understanding of the functions of such centers. The authors investigate the role of major international accounting firms and their services in the processes of business facilitation in the locations that host these centers. By focusing the investigation upon the role of the accounting firms in offshore financial centers, the authors gain a better grasp of the real or potential impacts of the firms in the global economy and in the jurisdictions that host them. Not only do the authors provide a detailed assessment of what the major accounting firms are actually doing in the centers, but they point out what attributes are needed by jurisdictions hoping to succeed as offshore financial centers. The centers included are Antigua, Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Singapore, and Vanuatu. The authors describe the legal and institutional environments facing business operations in general and the accounting firms in particular in offshore financial centers. By studying these operations, it should show what they are doing in terms of facilitating the international activities that flow through such centers. It should also add to the understanding of the potential that offshore activities have as vehicles for development in small emerging economies. This study should be of interest to a wide range of business disciplines, as well as governmental agencies in advanced and emerging nations, international agencies such as regional development banks, and accountants and the international financial community.
Book Synopsis Change, Dependency, and Regime Plasticity in Offshore Financial Intermediation by : Craig M. Boise
Download or read book Change, Dependency, and Regime Plasticity in Offshore Financial Intermediation written by Craig M. Boise and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal regimes of offshore jurisdictions have historically differed in significant ways from those applicable in onshore jurisdictions. Inevitably, legal and financial professionals have seized upon these differences to develop strategies for reducing transactions costs. A prominent example of such cross-border arbitrage was the routing of Eurodollar loans through a small group of former Dutch island colonies in the Caribbean, a practice which peaked in the mid-1980s, when virtually every major U.S. corporation made interest payments to a Netherlands Antilles finance subsidiary. The quot;Antilles sandwichquot; strategy exploited the difference between high U.S. withholding tax rates that applied to interest payments made to most foreign lenders, and the zero rate of tax that applied to U.S. interest payments made to residents of the Antilles under its tax treaty with the United States. Both jurisdictions reaped significant benefits from the strategy until the United States unilaterally terminated the tax treaty in 1987, virtually wiping out the Antilles offshore financial sector overnight. Unfortunately, because of rigidity in its governance structure, the Antilles' failed to develop alternative financial intermediation strategies to replace the Antilles sandwich structure before its demise. The rise and fall of the Antilles' offshore financial sector provides insight into the current struggle between onshore and offshore governments over the role of offshore financial centers like the Antilles within the global economy. Concerned about tax evasion by their residents, onshore jurisdictions including France, Germany, and the United States are pressing for major changes in offshore jurisdictions' legal and regulatory regimes that may eliminate legitimate opportunities for international arbitrage. In such an environment, offshore financial centers may find it difficult to survive. In this article, we distill from the Antilles experience a theory of quot;regime plasticityquot; and examine the role that it plays in allowing offshore financial centers to adapt to changes in the legal and political environments within which they operate. How offshore financial centers react, and whether they have learned the lessons of the Antilles' experience will play a major role in determining the future of the global offshore financial sector.
Book Synopsis Legal Issues in Offshore Financial Services by : Rose-Marie Belle Antoine
Download or read book Legal Issues in Offshore Financial Services written by Rose-Marie Belle Antoine and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this publication, academics, professional and representatives of the regulatory and government sectors from the Caribbean and the United Kingdom, address the types of offshore products and functions, the offshore tax function, the legal issues involved in using the offshore trust, and regulation of the offshore sector. The Key areas of International Business vehicles, the Captive Insurance Industry the use of offshore trusts in International estate planning and the regulation and control of money laundering are also analysed. This publication represents an edited and updated collection of papers delivered at the 1998 workshop on the subject Legal Issues in Offshore International Financial Services.
Book Synopsis Offshore Banking by : Mr.Luca Errico
Download or read book Offshore Banking written by Mr.Luca Errico and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper takes a closer look at offshore banking—a pervasive practice that has played a role in recent crises. Offshore banking is an increasingly attractive alternative to the sometimes heavily regulated financial markets of emerging economies. From a microeconomic vantage point, offshore banks seem to exploit the risk-return tradeoff by being more profitable than onshore banks, and in many instances also more leveraged. Risks stemming from offshore activities may be easily transmitted onshore with systemic consequences. Current prudential and supervisory frameworks are broadly adequate for risk management if effectively and universally implemented.
Download or read book Offshore Financial Havens written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to study the role of offshore financial havens in international capital flows. We examine the effects of being a tax haven, a money laundering centre or an offshore financial centre (OFC), which often overlap. We want to see whether these places are used as entrepots (which means temporary storage for funds) or as investment places or both. We mainly use two complementary data sets: bilateral cross-border asset holding and financial intermediation. One is a stock variable and the other one is a flow variable. We apply the gravity model to bilateral cross-border asset holding between 223 host countries and 67 source countries from Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS). We find that tax havens and OFCs attract more asset investment while money laundering centers scare potential investors away. We then use the flow variable of financial intermediation from UN database and find value of financial intermediation is higher in OFCs and lower in money laundering centers. There is no significant relationship between tax haven and financial intermediation. Our results show that the role of offshore havens in facilitating illegal activities like tax evasion and money laundering is overstated in the previous studies. By allowing parameter shifting in the model, we also find the competitive advantages of offshore finance in facilitating tax avoidance or evasion and money laundering have been eroded due to recent years' global action against tax evasion and money laundering.
Author :International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Dept. Publisher :International Monetary Fund ISBN 13 :1498329241 Total Pages :47 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (983 download)
Book Synopsis Offshore Financial Centers - The Assessment Program - A Progress Report and the Future of the Program by : International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Dept.
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
Book Synopsis International Financial Intermediation by : Ralph Bryant
Download or read book International Financial Intermediation written by Ralph Bryant and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains what the internationalization of banking and finance means, and examines its extent and the reasons it has developed. The advantages and disadvantages of the new situation-and what is yet to come-are neatly sketched, along with the policy problems for national governments and international bodies.
Book Synopsis Cross-Border Investment in Small International Financial Centers by : Mr.Gian Milesi-Ferretti
Download or read book Cross-Border Investment in Small International Financial Centers written by Mr.Gian Milesi-Ferretti and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This note documents and assesses the role of small financial centers in the international financial system using a newly-assembled dataset. It presents estimates of the foreign asset and liability positions for a number of the most important small financial centers, and places these into context by calculating the importance of these locations in the global aggregate of cross-border investment positions. It also reports some information on bilateral cross-border investment patterns, highlighting which countries engage in financial trade with small financial centers.
Author :International Monetary Fund Publisher :International Monetary Fund ISBN 13 :1455216569 Total Pages :180 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (552 download)
Book Synopsis Coordinated Portfolio investment Survey by : International Monetary Fund
Download or read book Coordinated Portfolio investment Survey written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a coordinated portfolio investment survey guide provided to assist national compilers in the conduct of the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey, conducted under the auspices of the IMF with reference to the year-end 1997. The guide covers a variety of conceptual issues that a country must address when conducting a survey. It also covers the practical issues associated with preparing for a national survey. These include setting a timetable, taking account of the legal and confidentiality issues raised, developing a mailing list, and maintaining quality control checks.
Book Synopsis Offshore Schemes and Tax Evasion by : Lucy Chernykh
Download or read book Offshore Schemes and Tax Evasion written by Lucy Chernykh and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We use mandatory Russian banks' reports to the Central Bank to construct a novel measure of offshore-banking. Individual bank involvement in offshore operations is calculated as a fraction of total transactions with foreign countries that go through offshore financial centers. We find that offshore-active banks perform less financial intermediation and focus more on international wire transfers. We show a positive relation between banks' offshore activities and tax evasion of companies doing business through these banks. Finally, we show that the Central Bank eventually responds to this behavior: offshore-active banks have higher likelihood of license revocation and criminal investigation against top-management.
Book Synopsis Concept of Offshore Financial Centers by : Ahmed Zoromé
Download or read book Concept of Offshore Financial Centers written by Ahmed Zoromé and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper proposes a new definition of Offshore Financial Centers (OFCs) and develops a statistical method to differentiate between OFCs and non-OFCs using data from the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS), the International Investment Position (IIP), and the balance of payments. The suggested methodology identifies more than 80 percent of the OFCs in the study sample that also appear in the a priori list used by the IMF to conduct its OFC assessment program. The methodology distinguishes OFCs based strictly on their macroeconomic features and avoids subjective presumptions on their activities or regulatory frameworks. The study also identifies three new countries meeting OFC criteria.
Book Synopsis Selected International Financial Centers by : V. K. Bhalla Et Al.
Download or read book Selected International Financial Centers written by V. K. Bhalla Et Al. and published by Anmol Publications PVT. LTD.. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Financial Centres (Ifcs) In Underdeveloped Countries Are Strategic Mechanisms Which Correspond To The Internationalisation Of Production, Which In Turn Occurred With The Expansion Of The Transnational Corporations (Tnc) In The 60S. They Were Created Around The Year 1970 With The Expansion Of The Transnational Banking System And The Internationalisation Of Capital.Main Topics, Elaborately, Discussed Are: International Financial Centres: An Overview; Causes Of The Creation And Expansion Of International Financial Centre; Functions Of The International Financial Centres; Internationalisation And Hegemony Of Finance Capital; Changing Forms Of Articulation Of Finance Capital And Prospects For Ifcs; Case For Bombay International Financial Centre, Etc.This Work Analyses The Origin Of The International Financial Centres And Their Role And Function Within This New Articulation Of The International System Under The Hegemony Of Finance Capital.The Students, Researchers, Academics, Financial Managers And Consultants Will Find This Book Most Useful And Informative.
Book Synopsis International Banking and Financial Centers by : Yoon S. Park
Download or read book International Banking and Financial Centers written by Yoon S. Park and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of international financial centers (IFCs) has paralleled the rapid expansion of international banking and Eurocurrency activities. During the past decade and a half, the international banking and financial markets have experienced phenomenal growth along with the parallel expansion of IFCs. The size of the Eurocurrency market grew from $110 billion in 1970 to over $4,000 billion by 1987, while the total international assets of all banking institutions rose from $130 billion to $4,800 billion during the same period. Some of the preeminent IFCs are playing a major role in the international financial markets, as demonstrated by the size of their international assets: Bahamas ($144 billion), Cayman Islands ($174 billion), Singapore ($150 billion), Hong Kong ($130 billion), Bahrain ($46 billion), and Panama ($32 billion). The patterns of Euroborrowing and Eurolending activities in these IFCs have been undergoing major changes. These changes came about as a result of the introduction of the floating exchange rate system in 1973, recent financial deregulation, internationalization of the financial markets, securitization of financial assets and liabilities, and global financial innovations. Since the pioneering work of Kindleberger in 1974 on the formation of financial centers, there has not been a comprehensive study to reflect the recent developments, trends and the mystique that have surrounded the IFCs' functions and operations in the international money and capital markets.
