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Systemic weaknesses, such as those which created the Asian financial crisis, and initiatives taken in the region to correct them, such as the Chiang Mai Initiative, also received special focus.

Recognizing the weaknesses and the need to improve international financial architecture to enable it to deal with the new challenges of global financial integration,

The Mirage of the Financial Singularity

5 World Bank, Global Development Finance Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability.

7 World Bank, Global Development Finance Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability.

The meetings focused on the structural features of the international monetary, financial and trading systems, the potential vulnerabilities they posed for developing countries and the institutional design of the international financial system.

To some extent, this is understandable, given the focus on short term liquidity and capital flows. But the sharply decreased availability of longer term funding is heightening financial sector vulnerabilities.

Today s financial market turmoil has exposed weaknesses in the current global financial system, of which many were known but went unaddressed. This lack of action reflects the increased complexity and linkages of the global financial system, and the absence of an effective anchor for financial stability.

9 See, for example, World Bank, Global Development Finance 2005 Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability.

The countries that are still not complying with the FATF standards serve as vulnerable points of entry into the financial system for terrorists and criminals.

Work with the financial sector to educate them on the vulnerabilities of formal and informal systems, and assist them in identifying and combating abuses.

14. Expresses also its concern that the volatility of short term capital flows and the weaknesses of the international financial system can have negative consequences on the realization of the right to development

Various forms of financial system abuse may compromise the reputation of financial institutions, with negative effects on investors' trust and therefore further weakening of the financial system.

Consistent with objectives of the Monterrey Consensus at the regional level, there is a need for regional initiatives and cooperation to increase the coherence and consistency of monetary, financial and trading systems and to reduce the vulnerability in the event of financial crisis.

They are essential in order to target the economic power of drug traffickers and prevent the distorting effects on financial markets.

One is behavioral finance is extremely powerful.

Weak financial systems have often been a catalyst for broader economic crisis.

In 1907, a major financial crisis emanating from the United States affected the rest of the world and demonstrated the fragility of the entire international financial system. The response to the current financial crisis is replaying a similar dynamic.

The recent Asian financial crisis attests to this.

After the financial crisis, the United States enacted the Dodd Frank Act to overhaul American financial regulation, with the aim of reducing the risk of another financial meltdown. But it did nothing to reform repo lending arguably the weakest link in the financial chain.

With much fanfare, the IMF recently embraced a new institutional view that seemingly endorses re regulating global finance. While the Fund remains wedded to eventual financial liberalization, it now acknowledges that free movement of capital rests on a much weaker intellectual foundation than does the case for free trade.

In addition, regulation was made difficult by weak international legal frameworks, poor government capacities and the increasing volume of global financial transactions.

Weaknesses

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(d) Agreement on measures to improve the cooperation between government and the private sector in preventing economic and financial crime, as well as working together to identify new vulnerabilities to organized crime

However, globalization also entails certain disadvantages it may reduce the policy autonomy of countries that have liberalized their financial systems as their vulnerabilities have increased and may cause Governments to be more cautious.

The first is vulnerability is not weakness.

Where law enforcement, the administration of justice and financial systems are weak, organized crime continues to spread.

Overcome weakness.

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The Conference stressed the importance of developing an orderly and strengthened international financial system with a view to addressing the fundamental weaknesses of the present system and stemming possible repercussions of any future financial crises.

While such efforts had promoted their integration into the world capital market, they had also exposed the fragile financial systems of such countries to strong speculative pressures which had recently led to serious financial crises.

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Lack of private sector growth and diversification of the economy, as well as a weak financial sector, are additional challenges.

Weakening the big banks further seemed likely to deepen and prolong the crisis. So JPM, according to this view, has been unlucky too many of its legal problems postdate the financial crisis or came to light well after it erupted.

Financial intermediary and auxiliary financial services

Gross national savings are low, reflecting the depth of poverty in Sierra Leone and the overall weaknesses of financial institutions.

60. It is certain that international financial imbalances will strike directly at the already frail economies of the developing countries.

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Nothing sloppy. Nothing weak.

Work with the financial sector to educate them or the vulnerabilities of formal and informal systems, and assist them in identifying and combating abuses.

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