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Earlier this month on Singles’ Day, an annual festival of youth-oriented consumption that has become the single largest shopping event in the world, China’s leading online payment platform, Alipay, processed up to 256,000 payments per second, using a robust cloud computing architecture.
And, for both economies, bleak recovery prospects cast a long shadow over payment capacity.
Faced with a large number of claims, Argentina chose to draw out the process by systematically using annulment proceedings against any unfavorable decision, and linked any payment to domestic judicial review – a procedure that violates the language and intent of the ICSID Convention and the BITs themselves.
With almost 50% of returning troops eligible to receive some level of disability payment, and more than 600,000 treated so far in veterans’ medical facilities, we now estimate that future disability payments and health-care costs will total $600-900 billion.
To this end, it asks other eurozone members’ central banks, particularly the German Bundesbank and, in some cases, the Dutch central bank, to credit the payment orders to the German and Dutch bond sellers.
Frequently, if the sellers of Spanish government bonds are outside the eurozone, it will ask the ECB to credit the payment orders.
The payment order credits granted by the Bundesbank and the Dutch central bank are recorded as Target claims against the euro system.
(This would be like a family financing its down payment not from its own savings but from distant relatives about whom the family cares little.)
Kicillof has gained international recognition as the public face of Argentina’s fight against the so-called vulture funds that want to extort full payment on Argentine bonds that they purchased for a few pennies on the dollar.
But this is impossible unless the “holdout” problem is solved: if a majority of creditors agree to reduce or postpone their claims, it is always tempting for an individual creditor to hold out for full payment by free riding on other creditors’ pain.
As a result, Argentina was barred from making a current interest payment to holders of its restructured debt unless it simultaneously paid the holdouts the full amount of principal and interest contractually owed to them.
But when a debtor is unable to pay, nothing is gained by forcing payment.
Next year’s G8 meeting in Japan must go beyond studying the problem to making a significant down payment on solving it.
In their hour of need, crisis-ridden Southern European countries ran up huge overdrafts with the European payment system, to replace the private loans no longer available to them.
Of course, the actual payment will be made in ordinary currency at the contemporaneous exchange rate, based on the consumer price index, between baskets and the currency.
Credit card companies now routinely charge the firms accepting credit card payments US$0.25 plus between two and three percent of the amount transferred per payment.
After the banker receives his or her first bond payment, the incentives become more complex.
The banker wants last year’s bonds to be paid (creating an incentive to safeguard stability) but wants a high payment this year (creating an incentive to maximize profit, which usually entails risk-taking).
If not, we will continue to face a dual tragedy: on one side, the thousands of patients who die each year for want of a kidney; on the other side, a human-rights disaster in which corrupt brokers deceive indigent donors about the nature of surgery, cheat them out of payment, and ignore their post-surgical needs.
A solution is to provide in-kind rewards – such as a down payment on a house, a contribution to a retirement fund, or lifetime health insurance – so that the program would not be attractive to people who might otherwise rush to donate on the promise of a large sum of instant cash.
Will they tolerate anonymous payment systems that facilitate tax evasion and crime?
Low-value silver coins were used for small day-to-day transactions, including payment of modest wages and rents.
Officially, these payments are only for reimbursement of costs; payment of an amount that is an “undue inducement” remains prohibited.
In Hong Kong, corruption was so pervasive as late as the 1970’s – if your house was on fire, the fire department demanded payment before pumping water!
These divergent trends, rather than generic capital flight, explain part of the growing imbalances in the Target 2 eurozone payment system.
Far from being more efficient as a means of payment or store of value than conventional money, cryptocurrencies seem to encourage the diversion of resources away from productive uses.
Then Israel, with strong US backing, refused to recognize the democratically elected Hamas government and withheld payment of the millions in taxes collected by the Israelis on its behalf.
Soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction and persuasion rather than threats of coercion or offers of payment.
Oil prices are set in a world market, and depend mainly on the quantities demanded and supplied by different regions, not the currency of payment.
But looking after the stability of the global financial system, including the assessment of exchange-rate policies and global payment imbalances, is a different responsibility.
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