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Crypto Jitters: Unhinged Stablecoins Add Volatility to an Already Unstable Market
The dig is impossible to resist. On Thursday, tether – the world’s biggest ‘stablecoin’ – briefly became untethered from its dollar peg. tether’s value sank to 95¢ before recovering to 97¢. That may seem a minor oscillation but indicates a
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Rescue by Helicopter Reserves
The world woke up on Monday 23 with higher international reserves for all countries. A new allocation of US$650 billion (SDR450 billion) in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to its member countries has entered into
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Banco Hipotecario: Betting the Bank on Inclusion and Women
To speak about financial inclusion in El Salvador is to reference no more than a decade of work which has failed to give the country much of a boost. But two years after the arrival of Nayib Bukele as president
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AFP Confía: Communication and Transparency Vital in Drive to meet Clients’ Pension Needs
AFP Confía, a subsidiary of Atlántida Financial Group, manages the largest private pension funds in Central America and the Caribbean. The El Salvador-based pension fund administrator began its operations in 1998. AFP Confia has been instrumental in shaping El Salvador’s
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Banco Hipotecario: Vision, Dynamism and SDG-Adherence
Banco Hipotecario President Celina Padilla Meardi has a vision to create better opportunities for her fellow Salvadorans through banking services. She believes that updating knowledge in legal, financial and technological areas will help to achieve that goal. She has put
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Unity: Central American Insurance Giant Counts Its People as Assets
Unity — the only regional insurance broker in Central America — is focused on delivering the best service to its clients. That means the best negotiations on insurance programme coverage on all lines: personal, corporate, life and health; offering the
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Ann Low, US Department of State: Combat Corruption by Enabling Tax Payment – El Salvador Case Study
In May 2016, the US Department of State funded a project in El Salvador’s third-largest city, Santa Ana, to discover whether incentives for business registration and enabling tax payments could reduce corruption and rebuild trust in government. Two years later,
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Ann Low, National Defense University: Excellence in Government through User-Centric Design
Around the world a revolution is occurring, not one of violent upheaval, but one of excellence. Estonia and New Zealand are the oft-cited exemplars of user-friendly eGovernment, but they are not alone. On every continent, government employees are waking up
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