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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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Barrier analysis of supply chain finance adoption in manufacturing companies

Benchmarking : An International Journal, 2019
Purpose Companies all over the world have recently started to adopt supply chain finance (SCF) solutions in their supply chains to reduce the payment defaults and simplify the bill settlement process.
Aswin Alora, M. Barua
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Development and Global Finance: The Case for an International Bank for Environmental Settlements

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1997
The 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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Unintended consequences: How does digital inclusive finance affect migrants' urban settlement intentions?

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2023
Xiaoxin Guo, Shihu Zhong
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Securities Services: Settlement, Custody and Financing

2017
Securities services, an essential and constant part of the capital market industry, have historically escaped the limelight. Securities service infrastructure has shown its resilience—and sheer importance—in the face of market upheaval during the financial crisis of 2008.
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The Anatomy of Mass Tort and Post-Settlement Litigant Finance in the U.S.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Litigant Third-Party Funding (LTPF), where financial companies advance money on a non-recourse basis to individual plaintiffs, is a growing and increasingly controversial industry in the U.S. This funding made headlines during the NFL concussion litigation with more than 1,000 players reported to have received such advances and with class counsel ...
Ronen Avraham, Ronen Avraham, Anthony J. Sebok, Lynn A. Baker   +3 more
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Korea-China Currency Swap-Financed Trade Settlement Facility

2014
The US-Dollar is still the most widely used currency for the settlement of trade transactions in East Asia. Currency swaps between Asian countries are one possibility to reduce this dependency on the US Dollar. This chapter explains the background and various aspects of the Korea-China currency swap-financed facility. First the framework and mechanisms
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Common Securities Law Questions in the Life Settlements and Life Insurance Premium Finance Industries

The Journal of Structured Finance, 2008
This article examines three securities-related questions frequently encountered in the life settlements, or secondary life insurance, and the life insurance premium finance markets: 1) Life insurance policy put or call agreement: Is it a security? 2) A fund that owns life-settlement-acquired life insurance policies of life insurance premium finance ...
Thomas D. Sherman, Brian T. Casey
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PRIME Finance Arbitration—A Role Model for the Settlement of International Financial Disputes?

2014
Traditionally, litigation has been a tool for dispute settlement in the international financial sector. The increasing involvement of parties from newly emerged economies and globalization has resulted in international arbitration being adopted more often as a means of settling fi nancial controversies.
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Practical Settlement Bounds for Longest-Chain Consensus

IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2022
Peter Gazi, Ling Ren, Alexander Russell
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