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The Mysterious Market for Post-Settlement Litigant Finance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021Litigant finance is a growing and increasingly controversial industry in which financial firms advance a plaintiff money in exchange for ownership rights in the proceeds of the legal claim on a nonrecourse basis: A plaintiff must repay the advance only if compensation is ultimately received for the legal claim.
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Financing Capital Formation in the Kibbutz Settlement
1967Evaluation of Long Term Programs for Agriculture with Respect to Requirements and Supply of Capital, Part ...
Sadan, Ezra +3 more
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The Risk Finance of Class Action Settlement Pressure
The Journal of Risk Finance, 2003Most high‐stakes litigation settles prior to the trial verdict being achieved. This apparent class action settlement pressure raises an interesting risk finance question addressed by the authors in this article. The article describes the basic law and economics of settlement risk within the context of potential and limitations of insurance and capital ...
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A Tangled Web: Complexity and Inequality in the English Local Government Finance Settlement
Local Government Studies, 2012Abstract The £29 billion formula grant stands at the heart of the English local government finance system. This transfer of resource from central to local government has, since 2006–07, been distributed using the so-called ‘four block model’. This extraordinarily complex formula-based funding mechanism aims to ensure that all local authorities are able
Alex Gibson, Sheena Asthana
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Promise or Peril: Opportunities and Challenges of Renminbi Trade Settlement and Financing
2013With China’s gradual transition from its traditional role as the “World’s Factory” to an emerging “World’s Market,” the rising dependence of major multinational corporations (MNCs) on China’s efficient workers and thriving consumers has inevitably made China the front and centre of international trade.
Joe M. K. Ng, Marvin P. W. Lo
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The Settlement and Financing of International Trade
2003The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and analyses the creation of a new global financial architecture.
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Traveller’s Finance and Inter-Bank Settlements
1985Outline the particular role of London in the Euro-currency system and comment on the special risks it faces in this respect.
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Development and Global Finance: The Case for an International Bank for Environmental Settlements
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1997The approach suggested here was proposed by the author during discussions with members of (a) the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), (b) the United States Council of Economic Advisors, (c) the Global Environment Facility, and (d) the Organisation for Economic Cooperation ...
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Reconceptualizing housing finance in informal settlements: the case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [PDF]
Environment and Urbanization, 2007 Most urban dwellers in developing countries live in informal settlements in housing that is built incrementally. Low-income households most often have no access to formal housing finance institutions and largely depend on informal housing finance mechanisms in addition to the recently established shelter microfinance institutions. However, both formal
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Settlement of Islamic finance disputes in Malaysia
2019Most Islamic finance disputes in Malaysia are decided through litigation before the civil courts. If the dispute involves a Shari’ah question, the civil court judge is obliged by law to refer such a question to the designated Shari’ah Advisory Council for a ruling which then becomes binding on the court. This arrangement ensures that both the civil and
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