Tag: World Bank

  • Luxembourg: The Premier Hub for International Bond Listings

    Luxembourg: The Premier Hub for International Bond Listings

    Luxembourg has long been recognized as a pivotal center for finance, but its role in the listing and trading of international bonds is particularly noteworthy. As the global leader in this domain, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) offers a compelling case study of how a financial marketplace can achieve prominence through innovation, strategic positioning, and…

  • Open AI on Private Placement Programs (PPP)

    Open AI on Private Placement Programs (PPP)

    Open AI; Explain how private placement programs work? Private Placement Programs (PPP) are investment opportunities offered by private entities to a limited number of investors who are typically high-net-worth individuals or institutional investors. These programs are often used for alternative investments that are not available through public markets. The basic structure of a PPP involves…

  • The World Bank’s incoherent approach to taxes

    The World Bank should revise its Doing Business report to bring coherence to its work on taxes. The World Bank’s Doing Business report came under fire last week for its alleged political bias against Chile. Doing Business is a sort of international competitiveness ranking. It measures on an annual basis the ease of doing business…

  • White Dragon Society, IMF, GCR, Heritage Bonds and Bank Trading Programs

    Over the past several years we have received requests from dozens of legitimate groups claiming to have imminent closings and requesting us to supply them with high level receiving bank accounts and trading programs. Not a single one has ever received any funds. • Chinese Bonds – The Beijing government has stopped redeeming these. They…

  • World Bank and IMF: Where do they stand on progressive and responsible taxation?

    The IMF and the World Bank are increasingly engaged with the challenge of addressing how tax avoidance and evasion affect developing countries. However, their approach needs to go much further to address the role played by multinational enterprises and tax havens in exacerbating inequality and undermining countries’ domestic revenues. The World Bank and the IMF…

  • Will Oil Always Be Priced in Dollars?

    The oil industry began in Texas and so oil is priced in dollars. In 2009, however, the Independent reported what would be a highly-profound move: the Gulf States, China, Japan, France and Russia were negotiating to end dollar-denominated dealings in oil. Use would instead be made of a basket of currencies including the euro, Chinese…