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November 29, 2017
La inclusión financiera es una prioridad en la agenda de gobiernos, reguladores y autoridades internacionales. Un marco regulatorio adecuado es una condición necesaria para avanzar en inclusión financiera. El Índice de Prácticas Regulatorias para la Inclusión Financiera evalúa y compara los marcos regulatorios de 8 países latinoamericanos.
August 4, 2017
The index assesses and compares the quality of regulations that influence financial inclusion in 8 Latin American countries. It defines three categories of regulatory practices: the enablers, which determine the overall quality of the financial environment; the promoters, which deal with specific market frictions; and the preventers which create distortions and barriers.
October 28, 2016
Like all financial services, electronic money presents risks that need to be addressed. National regulatory efforts have followed a myriad of approaches to ensure that customers (i) are effectively protected against loss of their funds in the event of insolvency of the issuer (insolvency risk) and (ii) are able to access their funds upon demand (liquidity risk).
May 6, 2015
In this first issue we focus on: A first overview of the Digital Economy; Economic development and digital banking; E-money in Latin America; Faster Payments; and Measuring the Digital Economy: the Networked Readiness Index.
April 27, 2015
New ways of understanding banking, technological improvements, and regulation yield new means of interaction between customers and banks through outsourcing agreements. This paper provides the first harmonised database with information on the number of banking correspondents by country, which helps in measuring access to the formal financial system.
December 3, 2014
This month we focus on: G20 leaders, time to shift the dial towards growth; TLAC, making bail-in feasible and credible instead of bail-out; restoring confidence in risk-weighted capital ratios; Basel Committee published the final version of the NSFR; European banking structural reform; the ECB published the fourth Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) quarterly report and proportionate regulation for electronic money.
