| | Abstract: Section 2(h) of the Act defines the term contract as "any agreement enforceable by law". To form a contract there must be free consent of all the parties, and undue influence, as defined in section 16, Contract Act 1872 puts a obvious obstacle in making the consent free. The kernel of undue influence basically lies in the relationship
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[pic] Many fleet cars were bought with an option to sell them back to the manufacturer. Such vehicles were called “program cars”, as distinct from “risky cars” which were not covered by a put option. Roughly 85 % of Hertz’ domestic fleet and 74 % of its international fleet were program cars. Program cars will become more expensive in the future due to the fact that Ford and GM adopted new market strategies that deemphasized lower-margin sales of program cars Risk cars exposed the company to residual
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and does respond to different factors and events that can change how the money supply is handled, addressed and issued. The reserve ratio, or the cash reserve ratio, is a regulation that sets the minimum reserves each bank must hold against deposits and notes. The more deposits the bank has, the more of a ratio it might need to hold against its deposits. The non-borrowed monetary base which can deal with the federal reserve holdings of both currency in circulation and reserves as well as the treasury’s
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The Financial Environment: Markets, Institutions, and Interest Rates In addition to these notes, please read chapter 3 and pages 191 through 206 of chapter 5. Problems 5-18 through 5-23 of chapter 5 are related to this topic. Since this part of the course deals with different types of markets, let us start by defining what these markets are. What are markets in general? Markets are transactions where individuals or organizations exchange items. The exchange could be
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Credit Creation by Banks Central bank is the first source of money supply in the form of currency in circulation. The Reserve Bank of Indian is the note issuing authority of the country. The RBI ensures availability of currency to meet the transaction needs of the economy. The Total Volume of money in the economy should be adequate to facilitate the various types of economic activities such as production, distribution and consumption. The commercial banks are the second most important sources
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Investment Banking an American synonym of merchant banking. Investment banks provide advice on mergers and acquisitions and are involved in financing industrial corporations through buying shares and selling them in relatively small lots to investors. In the Bangladesh context, merchant banking includes all institutions that combine the functions of both development banking and investment banking. The securities and exchange commission, based on SRO No. 59 of 24 April 1996, and a decision taken by
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Introduction: The financial crises are major disruptions in financial markets characterized by sharp declines in asset prices and firm failures (11). The global melt down of 2007-08, the Great Depression of 1929 and South Asian crises of 1997 tested the efficiencies of concerned regulatory authorities across the world. Financial crises moves like cyclone and spirals down to all connected economies (13). Whether financial crises emerges in the developed countries or in the developing countries,
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Vision The Bangladesh Bank (BB), through ensuring the quality of services and the competence of its staff, shall operate as a modern, dynamic, effective, and forward-looking central bank to manage the country's monetary and financial system with a view to stabilizing the internal and external value of Bangladesh Taka conducive to rapid growth and development of the economy. ICT in Bangladesh Bank Bangladesh Bank started its ICT journey in 1980 with IBM 370 Mainframe computer and also started in-house
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Structured products have changed the way the banks manage and mitigate the risk in their portfolios. By the help of structured products, banks sell a pool of loans they originated to a special purpose vehicle. The SPV will pay for the assets by issuing a set of tranches of liabilities with different seniorities. Investors buying part of a tranche assume some of the credit risk of the underlying pool of collateral to the extent that losses on the loans may exceed the par value of more
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tradable assets, particularly equity. Another important factor was growth in fees associated with an expansion in household credit, particularly fees associated with residential mortgages. This expansion was itself fueled by the development of non-bank credit intermediation (or “shadow banking”). We offer a preliminary assessment of whether the growth of active asset management, household credit, and shadow banking – the main areas of growth in the financial sector – has been socially beneficial
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