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The banking industry in France has, as of 11 October 2008, an average leverage ratio (assets/net worth) of 28 to 1, and its short-term liabilities are equal to 60% of the French GDP or 128% of its national debt. [1] France operates a deposits guarantee fund, known as the Fonds de Garantie des Depôts.
Bank rate, also known as discount rate in American English, [1] and (familiarly) the base rate in British English, [2] is the rate of interest which a central bank charges on its loans and advances to a commercial bank. The bank rate is known by a number of different terms depending on the country, and has changed over time in some countries as ...
Following the war, the Bank sought to re-establish the gold standard and acquired capital from a number of American and British banking syndicates to defend the franc from exchange-rate fluctuations. The Bank also began to hoard gold reserves and, at its peak, held 28.3 percent of the world's gold stock (only behind the United States at 30.4 ...
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Central bank interest rate (%) Change Effective date of last change Average inflation rate 2017–2021 (%) by WB and IMF [1] [2] as in the List Central bank interest rate minus average inflation rate (2017–2021) Afghanistan: 6.00 3.00: 24 July 2021 [3] 3.38 2.62 Albania: 2.75 0.25: 6 November 2024 [4] 1.78 0.97 Algeria: 3.00 0.25: 29 April ...
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Sweden had two periods of free banking, 1830–1860 and 1860–1902. Following a bank crisis in 1857, there was a rise in popular support for private banks and private money issuers (especially Stockholms Enskilda Bank, founded in 1856). A new bank law was adopted by parliament in 1864, deregulating the interest rate. The following decades ...
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