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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

2019 Mehrsa Baradaran Baradaran, Mehrsa The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap 2019 Neil Barofsky Barofsky, Neil Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street 2012 Patricia Beard Beard, Patricia Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley 2007 Ben S.

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Ireland rounds on 1 and 2-cent coins

Banking 2020

Canada scrapped its penny coins in 2012, while New Zealand and Australia were ahead of the game as they so often are, ditching the one-cent coins in the 1990s. Six European Union member states have already begun phasing out smaller denomination coins – The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Hungary and Belgium.

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Credit vs Debit: Economic Principles Impact Card Fraud

Banking 2020

“Among general-purpose cards, single-message (or PIN) debit card transactions (including both purchases and ATM cash withdrawals) in 2012 had the lowest fraud rates by both number and value,” the US central bank states. In the US, PIN debit cards saw a fraud rate of 0.89 transactions per 10,000.

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French chip and PIN hack ‘most sophisticated ever’

Banking 2020

The fraud, which took place over several months from 2011 to 2012, caused a net loss of €600,000, involved over 7,000 transactions and featured 40 modified cards. It was a highly complex attack, but essentially it saw fraudsters embed two chips in payment cards to carry out man-in-the-middle style attacks.

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Barriers to financial inclusion

Banking 2020

per cent to the GDP of developing economies between 2008 and 2012. There is the economic case – the more people can save, invest and make payments as and when they choose, the more growth we get. Payments alone can make a difference – Visa says that electronic payments added 0.8

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China and India lead global cashless growth

Banking 2020

percent for Europe for 2012-13 – up from 3.6 Many nations around the world, both developed and emerging, have enjoyed strong growth in non-cash payments in the past few years, with Germany, the UK, Belgium and France all contributing to an increase of 5.1 percent for the previous 12-month period and significantly outpacing GDP.

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Finland and US lead the way for non-cash payments

Banking 2020

However, the growth rate of 37 per cent between 2012 and 2014 was the highest among the main non-cash markets. In China, for example, per-inhabitant non-cash transaction rates are currently low, with citizens making less than 50 such payments on average in 2013.

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