World Economic and Financial Surveys

International Capital Markets: Developments, Prospects, and Key Policy Issues, 1996

September 17, 1996

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International Capital Markets: Developments, Prospects, and Key Policy Issues, 1996, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed November 25, 2024

Summary

Provides a comprehensive survey of recent developments in international financial markets, including developments in emerging capital markets, bond markets, major currency markets, and derivative markets. The report focuses on efforts by the major industrial countries to strengthen the management of financial risk and prundential oversight over the international banking system. It also critically evaluates existing mechanisms for international cooperation of financial supervision and regulation and proposes the development of international banking standards.

Subject: Banking, Bonds, Commercial banks, Currency markets, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Loans, Stock markets

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Commercial banks, Currency markets, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Emerging market country, Europe, Global, Loans, Market, Market development, Market infrastructure, Market participant, Settlement risk, Stock markets, WEFS, Western Hemisphere

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    171

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    World Economic and Financial Surveys No. 1996/004

  • Stock No:

    WEOEA0061996

  • ISBN:

    9781557756091

  • ISSN:

    0258-7440

Notes

1986 to date. Earlier issues of this title from 1981 were published as part of the Occasional Paper series; see Occasional Paper, Nos. 1, 7, 14, 23, 31, and 43. 1993 issue published in two parts under the title International Capital Markets. Part I subtitled Exchange Rate Management and International Capital Flows; Part II subtitled Systematic Issues in International Finance. From 1986 to 1991 issued under the title International Capital Markets: Developments and Prospects.

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