A treatise on the law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank notes and cheques.

Includes legislation.

A treatise of the law of bills of exchange : promissory notes, bank-notes and cheques /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sylvester's bank-note and exchange manual

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 28073.54.

O design das cédulas brasileiras do cruzeiro ao real (1970-2010)

Este trabalho é uma investigação da história do papel-moeda brasileiro, do cruzeiro de 1970 ao real de 2010, do ponto de vista do Design Gráfico, considerando as dimensões histórica, tecnológica e política do objeto dinheiro impresso. Foram levantados dados de diferentes fontes, como bibliografia especializada, documentos da Casa da Moeda do Brasil e do Banco Central, bem como entrevistas com profissionais envolvidos nos projetos de papel-moeda brasileiro no período de 1970 a 2010. O estudo aponta para uma crescente nacionalização do processo de projeto gráfico do papel-moeda brasileiro a partir dos anos 1960, com a aprovação da proposta da cédula de cinco cruzeiros pela Casa da Moeda, dando início à nacionalização definitiva dos trabalhos de projeto e de produção de cédulas pelo Brasil, atingida com o lançamento da família de cédulas projetada por Aloísio Magalhães, e com a modernização da Casa da Moeda no final dos anos 1970.

La opinión nacional sobre la emisión por el Banco Hipotecario Nacional : manifestaciones de la prensa de la Republica /

Mode of access: Internet.

Financial pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets on finance.

Address of B.E. Walker, President Canadian Bankers' Association: given at meeting of New York State Bankers' Association, Saratoga, 10th July, 1895.

Reproduction of original in: National Library of Canada.

Enquête sur les principes et les faits généraux qui régissent la circulation monétaire et fiduciaire.

"Questionnaire de l'enquête ... 1. Des crises monétaire ... 2. De la monnaie fiduciaire ... 3. Des conditions d'une bonne monnaie fiduciaire ... 4. Des établissements qui émettent des monnaies fiduciaires ... 5. Du fonctionnement de la banque ..."

The Philippines in the Paper Global Value Chain

This report uses the Duke CGGC Global Value Chain (GVC) framework to examine the role of the Philippines in the global paper industry and identify opportunities for upgrading. The Philippines’ paper sector is a domestically oriented industry that provides significant indirect employment opportunities for wide swaths of workers as well as indirect exports for sectors such as electronics, food and beverage, and cosmetics. However, the country’s overall participation in the paper GVC is limited, with raw material constraints hindering export development. Abaca pulp production, a niche product category that uses the Manila hemp plant to generate specialized outputs such as tea bags and bank notes, is the country’s most dependable export, but even with the export value of abaca pulp approaching an all-time high in 2014, the overall paper industry only generated US$127 million in export revenue, 54th among 193 countries in the world.

Letters on the currency : addressed to Charles Wood, Esq. M.P. (Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons, now sitting,) ascertaining for the first time, on true principles, the amount of inland and foreign bills of exchange, in circulation for several consecutive years, and out at one time : also, defending country bankers from the charge made against them in the work of S. Jones Loyd, Esq. : and giving unanswerable reasons why the notes of a bank of issue should not be substituted for the circulation of country bankers /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 31555.

Depression to decolonization:Berclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies, 1926-1962. By Kathleen E.A. Monteith. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2008. xvi + 355pp. Illustrations, tables. figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. $30.00. ISBN: 879-976-640-198-6.

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Bank Failures of the 1990s::An Exploratory Analysis

Past research has frequently attributed the incidence of bank failures to macroeconomic cycles and/or downturns in the regional economy. More recent analyses have suggested that the incidence and severity of bank failures can be linked to governance failures, which may be preventable through more stringent disclosure and auditing requirements. Using data on bank failures during the years 1991 to 1997, for the US, Canada, the UK and Germany, this study examines the relationship between institutional characteristics of national legal and auditing systems and the incidence of bank failures. In the second part of our analysis we then examined the relationship between the same institutional variables and the severity of bank failures.
The first part of our study notes a significant correlation between the law and order tradition (‘rule of law’) of a national legal system and the incidence of bank failures. Nations which were assigned high 'rule of law’ scores by country risk guides appear to have been less likely to experience bank failures. Another variable which appears to impact on bank failure rates is the ‘risk of contract repudiation’. Countries with a greater ‘risk of contract repudiation’ appear to be more likely to experience bank failures. We suggest that this may be due to a greater ex ante protection of stakeholders in countries where contract enforcement is more stringent.
The results of the second part of our study are less clear cut. However, there appears to be a significant correlation between the amount paid out by national deposit insurers (our proxy for the severity of bank failures) and the macroeconomic variable 'GDP change'. Here our findings follow the conventional wisdom; with greater amounts of deposit insurance funds being paid during economic downturns (i.e. low or negative GDP 'growth' correlates with high amounts of deposit insurance being paid out). A less pronounced relationship with the severity of bank failures can also be established for the institutional variables ' accounting standards' as well as 'risk of contract repudiation'. Countries with more stringent ‘accounting standards’ and a low ‘risk of contract repudiation’ appear to have been less prone to severe bank failures.

Highly polymorphic microsatellite loci in the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus)

We describe seven polymorphic, dinucleotide microsatellite loci isolated from bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus, Rodentia: Muridae) collected from the Wirral Peninsula, United Kingdom. Microsatellites were isolated as part of a long-term study on the wider effects of host-pathogen interactions of an endemic viral disease. These microsatellites showed between five and 13 alleles per locus in these populations. Observed and expected heterozygosities varied between 0.275 to 0.777 and 0.487 to 0.794, respectively. These markers will allow us to investigate the structure of this bank vole population. © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Niagara Suspension Bridge Bank note, 1841

The Niagara Suspension Bridge Bank operated in Queenston in 1840. The bank issued notes in denominations of ten dollars, five dollars and one dollar, and featured a drawing of the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge, ten years prior to its construction. The notes are signed by the bank’s Cashier, Gilbert McMicken, and President, Joseph Hamilton. The bank failed a year after its establishment.