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Zeros, Swaps, and Options — The Revolution in Finance

2002
Orange County, California, one of the richest in the United States, sits on the Pacific Coast, and abuts Los Angeles to the North and San Diego to the South. The county is one of the politically most conservative in the United State — strong voter sentiment for larger military expenditures (lots of retired naval officers live there), a balanced budget,
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Buyer-Initiated Direct Financing and Dividend-for-Guarantee Swap Financing: Mitigating Financial Constraints in Supply Chains

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Wen-Hui Jiang, Zhen‐Song Chen, Huan‐Cheng Chang, Qiang Yang   +3 more
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Debt-for-Nature Swaps Financing Water Security and Green Growth

2023
Abstract Many developing countries have large international debts, and debt servicing absorbs a significant proportion of total budget expenditure. The large scale of the debt contributes significantly to environmental degradation and the deterioration of the natural resource base. Furthermore, post-COVID-19 economic recovery costs could
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Creative finance and the local state: the Hammersmith and Fulham swaps affair

Political Geography, 1998
Abstract In a seminal moment in the recent history of British finance, the House of Lords ruled in 1991 that local authorities were not permitted to participate in the swaps market. At one point, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham had accounted for half a per cent of all swaps trading across the world and a total of 137 councils were ...
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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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The use of interest rate swaps in hospital capital finance.

Journal of health care finance, 1995
This article describes the structure of an interest rate swap as it is commonly employed in hospital capital finance. It explores the role of the swap dealer as a facilitator of interest rate swap transactions and explains the motivation for doing so.
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INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR FINANCING THE BLUE ECONOMY: SWAPPING DEBT FOR NATURE

EKONOMIKA I UPRAVLENIE: PROBLEMY, RESHENIYA
Environmental degradation and macroeconomic instability have a negative impact on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the blue economy strategy. Initiatives by the international community are aimed at developing innovative financial mechanisms aimed at jointly addressing these problems.
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Cross Border Financing Scheme Design under the RMB Currency Swap Framework

2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, 2009
During current economic downturn, China has rolled out stimulus plans to facilitate domestic demand development, adjusting her export trade policy. This has affected many Hong Kong invested enterprises in Pearl River Delta (PRD), facing difficulties to transform and upgrade, with new opportunities as well to develop China’s domestic market. Among them,
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Who will adopt? Investigating the adoption intention for battery swap technology for electric vehicles

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022
Gibbson Adu-Gyamfi, Huaming Song, Bright Obuobi   +2 more
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Understanding swap finance

Journal of Banking & Finance, 1991
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