Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)

Senior officials responsible for banking supervision or financial stability issues in central banks and authorities with formal responsibility for the prudential supervision of banking business where this is not the central bank.

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From Central Bank to Central Planning?

For example, the country s Central Bank the Czech National Bank uses EDI to exchange information with other banks.

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European Central Bank (ECB)

Not every country s central bank not even every friendly country s central bank has been invited to join the swap lines club. Membership is restricted to the United States Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Swiss National Bank, and the Bank of Canada.

Its clients are the banks it is a place where banks can go to borrow money when they really need to and its functions are to support the banking sector so that banks can make their proper profits as they go about their proper business. Above all, the central bank must ensure that the money supply is large enough that mere illiquidity, rather than insolvency, does not force banks into bankruptcy and liquidation.

Forty five central banks, several of which are independent institutions, are members of BIS, which is the locus of decision making in the international coordination of financial regulation.

Has this name been circulated to your central bank and all other banks within your State?

This project has brought together experts from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the central banks and universities in several countries.

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The lists provided by the United Nations were updated by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) and approved by the Council of Ministers of WAEMU.

Act 73 118 on the statute of the Central Bank of Mauritania, by which the Central Bank Governor derives his regulatory power in the banking and financial sector.

(c) property of the central bank or other monetary authority of the State

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The latter is responsible for their supervision and regulation.

A national ordinance prohibits operating a money transfer company without being registered with the Central Bank of the Netherlands Antilles.

It circulated the Directive to all Jordanian agent banks in the Kingdom, to their branches abroad, to subsidiaries of Jordanian banks and to licensed banking companies.

For the persons licensed by the Central Bank the criteria for considering the transactions as suspicious are established by the Board of the Central Bank.

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Source Central Reserve Bank, 1993.

Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

Law No. 23 of 2002 concerning the Central Bank of Syria and the basic monetary system provides that all banks are subject to monitoring by the Central Bank of Syria and are placed under its oversight.

The Germans want the ECB to focus only on large systemic banks, and leave smaller savings banks (like those that invested heavily in subprime mortgages) to national authorities. The United Kingdom and Sweden argue that they cannot be made subservient to a central bank of which they are, at best, semi detached members.

Creation of a special anti money laundering unit within the Central Bank.

It created so called Central Bank Bills, which commercial banks are supposed to buy voluntarily. When they do, the money they pay is also locked up in the PBC s accounts.

As the Central Bank of the country, the Bank of Zambia administered the Bank of Zambia and Foreign Exchange Acts and assisted the Government in regulating and supervising the operations of the Commercial Banks under the Banking Act.

Such operations are subject to regular monitoring by the Central Bank.

Instrument for standardized international reporting of

The project has also initiated the process for establishing a Somali central bank, as well as the development of a basic framework to make it operational.

I was the Legal Adviser to the Central Bank of Zambia.

Consequently, the Kuwaiti financial intelligence unit, the National Commission on Combating Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism, had been established within the Central Bank of Kuwait and a number of decisions had been issued by the Bank to prevent and combat money laundering.

(e) The Statute of the Financial Observations Center of the Central Bank of Armenia.

The authority does not have any accounts for the last five years.

Last year, the Shanghai Hong Kong Stock Connect was launched to stimulate cross border investment and capital market development. And China has signed bilateral currency swap agreements with 28 central banks, including the Central Bank of Brazil, the Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England.

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(d) Regulation 5 of the Central Bank of Armenia and

(b) To ratify the designation of the President of the Central Reserve Bank and of the Superintendent of Banking and Insurance

30 Communiqué of G 20 finance ministers and central bank governors, Berlin, November 2004.

Item III of section 1 and 2 of Circular 2852 98 of the Central Bank provides that financial institutions are obliged to register in the Central Bank Information System the following