On January 27, 2025, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number seven hundred and eleven. It was resolved that the 2027 Annual Meetings...
Open banking is a data-sharing scheme that allows third-party service providers to access consumer banking data through open application programming interfaces (APIs). Of its many benefits, direct improvements...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: financial markets; high-income...
The Asian banking sector, like its counterparts globally, does not have high direct sustainability impacts. Nonetheless, the banking sector plays a crucial role in directing capital in one of the highest...
Only recently has the debate on bank capital regulation devoted specific attention to the role that bank loan loss provisions can play as part of a minimum capital regulatory framework. Several national...
Recent debate about the pro-cyclical effects of bank capital requirements, has ignored the important role that bank loan loss provisions play in the overall framework of minimum capital regulation. It...
This press release announced that IFC invested in a guarantee facility for Russian Banks on November 10, 1994. The IFC has approved a guarantee of up to US10 million dollars for the Russian Trade Enhancement...
This press release announces that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has approved 15 million US dollars underwriting term credit facility for Banco General de Negocios S.A. (BGN), a leading Argentine...
This report is intended for policy-makers concerned with the governments and efficiency of the financial sector and its banking institutions. The essays in this report were written by bankers with experience...
The World Bank signed today an agreement with the Deutsche Bank AG, Dresdner Bank AG, Convnerzbank AG and Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale for a private placement of Deutsche mark Notes in the principal...
The relationships between the earnings and portfolios of the commercial banks of Singapore, the Philippines, and Tailand in 1975-76 are examined. The hypothesis that variations in the portfolio composition...
This news release, dated June 2, 1977, announces the World Bank approved a 40 million dollars loan for Indonesia to assist the operations of Bank Pembangunan Indonesia (BAPINDO), the government owned development...
The World Bank. and a syndicate of six Italian banks headed by Banca Commerciale Italiana signed an agreement today, July 12, covering a public issue in the Italian capital market.
This press release announces that the industrial development in India will be assisted by a World Bank loan of sixty million US dollars to the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI)...
Progress in fostering economic development in Africa is recorded in the 1968 Annual Report of the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA).
Mr. George D. Woods, President of the World Bank, today announced the appointment of Mr Arthur Karasz as Director of the European Office of the World Bank Group at 4 Avenue d'Iena, Paris.
This transcript, from the session of regular Board meeting of Executive Directors of the IBRD, held on Tuesday, December 19, 1967 covers, the following: report on IDA meeting in London by Mr. Woods; and...
This transcript, from the session of financial policy committee meeting of the Executive Directors of IBRD held on Thursday, June 1, 1967, covers the report on IDA replenishment, and discussion on interest...
This transcript, from the session of the Executive Directors held on February 10, 1966 covers only the discussion of Regular Board Meeting.