Managing Payment System Risk During the Transition From a Centrally Planned to a Market Economy

November 1, 1992

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Andrew T. Hook Managing Payment System Risk During the Transition From a Centrally Planned to a Market Economy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1992) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

The objectives and functions of payments systems in centrally planned economies are described and analyzed. These are compared to those of payments systems in market economies and to the characteristics of an ideal payments system. The dominant role of the state in the centrally planned economies meant that the state underwrote virtually all payments risk. With the withdrawal of the state, however, participants became exposed to credit, liquidity, and operational risks. In the transition, the central bank has a key role to play in payments systems. Areas where rapid improvements are possible are: accounting, clearing, settlement, netting and standardization.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Credit risk, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector, Money, Payment systems

Keywords: Clearing house, Commercial banks, Credit, Credit risk, Financial sector, Managing payment risk, Payment advice, Payment anomaly, Payment habit, Payment information, Payment instruction, Payment obligation, Payment systems, Payment transaction, Payments area, Payments policy, Payments regulation, Payments transmission, State bank, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

49
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1992/095
Stock No:

WPIEA0951992
ISBN:

9781451851762
ISSN:

1018-5941

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