Chapter One Why Are Financial Intermediaries Special? Chapter Outline Introduction Financial Intermediaries’ Specialness Information Costs • Liquidity and Price Risk • Other Special Services Other Aspects of Specialness The Transmission of Monetary Policy Credit Allocation Intergenerational Wealth Transfers or Time Intermediation Payment Services Denomination Intermediation Specialness and Regulation
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October 2002 national competency standards for the enrolled nurse Introduction Description of Enrolled Nurse National Competency Standards Assessing Competence Glossary of Terms Introduction The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC) is a peak national nursing and midwifery organisation established in 1992 with the purpose of developing a national approach to nursing and midwifery regulation. The ANMC works in conjunction with the state and territory nursing and midwifery regulatory
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The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) started off as a charity organization publicly funded to provide affordable dialysis treatment to kidney failure patients. 1. Stakeholders: Their interests and rights 1.2 Due to the nature of NKF as a charity organization, its primary stakeholders are its donors which NKF rely primarily on to finance its operations. Hence, donors wield significant power as they are the major financial lifeline of the organization. The interest of the donors would be mostly
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Government Ministries and Agencies Short Assignment Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada February 24th, 2015 I Responsibilities Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada is one of the federal government departments responsible for meeting the Government of Canada's obligations and commitments to First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Through these responsibilities, AANDC helps to maintain and strengthen the relationship between the Government of Canada and Aboriginal people
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Concentrating on one aspect of MiFIDII, evaluate the arguments for and against regulatory change and consider possible unintended consequences The MiFID 2 reforms cover seven main areas; the one we are focusing on is authorisation and organisational requirements. Governed by Article 16 of MiFID 2 Act. Following some notable failings during the financial crisis, MiFID II seeks to enhance investor protection. MiFID II has a goal of maximising transparency and reducing data fragmentation Product
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could use the Constitution's Commerce Clause power to force private businesses to abide by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This important case represented an immediate challenge to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the landmark piece of civil rights legislation which represented the first comprehensive act by Congress on civil rights and race relations since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. For much of the 100 years preceding 1964, race relations in the United States had been dominated by segregation, a system
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and Exchange Commission (SEC) will pay 10 to 30% of the amount the government recovers from financial fraud if the whistleblower provides original information leading to a recovery of more than a million dollars. False Claims Act * Recent legislation has made it easier and potentially more lucrative for employees to blow the whistle to regulators when companies are government contractors or when the federal government has somehow been defrauded. * Whistleblowers who report corporate wrongdoing
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the basis for the Cruzans’ argument in favor of removing their daughter from life support, and the basis of the state of Missouri’s argument in favor of keeping Nancy Cruzan alive. One of them was the Tenth Amendment, which said “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
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present importance, relative maturity, and worldwide acceptance only during the 20th century. The first landmark of modern labour law was the British Health and Morals of Apprentices Act of 1802, sponsored by the elder Sir Robert Peel. Similar legislation for the protection of the young was adopted in Zürich in 1815 and in France in 1841. By 1848 the first legal limitation of the working hours of adults was adopted by the Landsgemeinde (citizens’ assembly) of the Swiss canton of Glarus. Sickness
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is “a private, nonprofit institution that provides independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation” and “the IOM’s aim is to help those in government and the private sector make informed health decisions by providing evidence” (The National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine) that are reliable and straightforward, all aimed at improving health. The IOM has been developing and publishing reports on health care issues for many years, and one of which
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