Company (HFC) Investment Company (IC) Loan Company (LC) Mutual Benefit Financial Company (MBFC) Miscellaneous Non-Banking Company (MNBC) Residuary Non-Banking Company (RNBC) IMPORTANCE • NBFCs perform a diverse range of functions and helps bridge the credit gaps. • They have served the households, farm, and small enterprise sector on a sustained basis. • A thriving, healthy and growing non-banking financial sector is necessary for promoting the growth of an efficient and competitive economy. • The difference
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A credit default swap (CDS) is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer in the event of a loan default or other credit event. The buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments (the CDS "fee" or "spread") to the seller and, in exchange, receives a payoff if the loan defaults. It was invented by Blythe Masters from JP Morgan in 1994. In the event of default the buyer of the CDS receives compensation (usually the face value of the loan), and the seller of the
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Fitch, one of the big three international rating agency recently downgraded Malaysia’s credit standing. This has highlighted that the government has to improve on its fiscal policy and management. The first step taken by the government was to begin to rationalize subsidies leading to immediate increase in price of Ron 95 by RM0.20. Fiscal consolidation to further strengthen the fiscal position will be the implementation of the controversial goods and service tax( GST ) on April,2015. a) Comment
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Hogan, C.E., Z. Rezaee, R.A. Riley Jr., and U.K. Velury (2008). Financial Statement Fraud: Insights from the Academic Literature. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 27 (2): 231-252. 1. There is a significant amount of literature on the characteristics of fraud firms, providing support for the fraud triangle classifications and the list of “red flags” used in both SAS No. 82 and SAS No. 99. a. Pressures to meet analysts’ forecasts, rapid growth, compensation incentives, stock options, the
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The contagious impact of the European sovereign debt crisis on the foreign exchange market 1. Introduction In 2010, the debt crisis caused the euro to go down 10% in a three-month period. Some largest hedge funds in America discovered this opportunity and short euro in groups to an enormous scale. Later on, the British pound is being infected. It continuously dropped for six days, which wrote the longest dropping period record. In this paper, the objective is to critically analyse how the European
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United States, it is still too early to determine all of the precise causes and consequences of the crisis. Many different entities share the responsibility for creating or enabling the crisis: mortgage lenders, borrowers, regulators, investors, rating agencies, and probably many others. At its broadest level, this crisis was caused by a failure of governance: of political governance by regulators and legislators, of corporate governance by firms and executives, and of personal governance by individuals
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delinquencies and foreclosures, and the resulting decline of securities backed by said mortgages. What is a subprime mortgage? A subprime mortgage is a type of loan granted to individuals with poor credit histories, who, as a result of their deficient credit ratings, would not be able to qualify for conventional mortgages. Because subprime borrowers present a higher risk for lenders, subprime mortgages charge interest rates above the prime lending rate. There are several
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Spencer Whitworth Ryan Scoville Austin Gray CTP 1: Credit Default Swaps With the financial crisis behind us, it is worth asking whether Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) were a positive development in our economic system. Many blamed the interconnections generated by primary and secondary CDS trading for the implosions that occurred in 2007, when the underlying assets on which the majority of CDSs were based - mortgage-backed securities - began to default. The media agreed, labeling CDSs with terms
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ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE My first day of my first Accounting class had to have been my most memorable. After my Accounting teacher, Mr. Mazza, introduced himself he went over the objective of the course. Within five minutes every student had the “deer in the headlight’s” look on their face. I wanted to get up and walk out of the class thinking I’m in over my head with this class. Then he starting slowing his explanation down and brought it down to the basic by explaining the basic account equation (Assets
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1. Discuss whether the analysts following Intel appear to have been influenced by any biases, both generally and in their reaction to Intel’s announcement in September 2000 (3 marks). 2. Discuss whether James Stewart’s assessment of eBay reflects any biases (3 marks). 3. In what ways are the events described at Intel and eBay similar and in what ways are they different (4 marks)? Question # 1 Brandt Cornell’s paper “Is the response of analyst to information consistent with fundamental
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