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According to Andi Dervishi of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, the cell phone can occupy the same function as a "decisive device" for personal money management in developing regions like Latin America as computers do for bank customers in the U.S., Japan and Europe. Banks already are facing heavy compliance costs as a result of the tightened controls and reporting regulations created by counter-terrorism-related requirements such as fighting money laundering. [...] the U.S. banking crisis, which spread to Europe and other parts of the industrial world, has heightened public sensibilities about the need for deposit guarantees and further sharpened regulators' focus.
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The developers of the proposed $300 million Stroudwater Place retail-commercial complex in Westbrook come at the project from unexpected directions. Jason Snyder is a Westbrook native whose professional interest has been international finance. Arthur Emil's personal and professional life has revolved around New York City.
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In recent years, households have been expected to take more responsibility with respect to personal financial decisions. Workplace financial education is viewed as a means to help employees deal with the increasingly complex financial choices they face. This article provides an overview of literature that has examined the prevalence and effectiveness of personal finance and retirement education programs in the workplace. Results of a survey by the International Foundation for Employee Benefit Plans provide insight concerning the methods of delivery, topics covered and which workers are eligible to participate in workplace financial planning programs. The research suggests that those who participate in financial education seminars change their savings goals and behaviors in a positive wa...
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This paper addresses the recent adoption of economics standards in the state of Indiana. The analysis is based on responses to a survey instrument that was designed to obtain information about the demographic profile of high school economics teachers, their coverage of topic areas included in the economics standards, and the critical challenges they face as high school economics teachers. We find that while virtually all teachers in our sample deviate from the standards, the magnitude of the deviation is small, and occurs in a predictable way. Most teachers appear to spend slightly less time on microeconomics (43.2% versus the mandated 50%) and international economics concepts (9.1% versus the mandated 12%) in favor of additional personal finance topic (19% versus 10%). As a result, the...
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By Trevor Delaney AP Personal Finance Editor NEW YORK -- Europe once offered relative safety to investors with an international appetite. Lately, however, the seemingly familiar terrain has become shaky ground. Emerging markets in South America and Asia seem stable by comparison.
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The levels of financial literacy among students of the three countries, specifically, the U.S., Belarus, and Japan were analyzed to identify similarities and differences in the student performance on a standardized test. The authors generally find that, on the average, Belarusian university students performed better than high school students and Belarusian high school students demonstrated a similar level of achievement with American high school students who did not receive personal finance instruction. Japanese students outperformed both Belarusian and American students with and without personal finance training. There was consistently higher performance on the topic of Earning Income and lower performance on the topic Savings across the three nations.
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About 42 percent of high school seniors in the United States are proficient in economics, according to a first-of-its-kind national test that covered national and international economics, as well as personal finance. The government's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - often called "the nation's report card" - periodically tests students in a range of subjects including math, reading, history and science, but hasn't examined economics proficiency until now.
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... is the main author of the handbook International Cash Management. Van der Wielen has held posts at ... banking, international banking and personal finance services products such as deposits, credit...
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LONDON, September 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Britain's top fund managers are supporting British manufacturing over and above any other sector and are only backing the safer high street banks shows Top Stocks, a new service from Citywire Money.
... from the banking crisis, as well as International Personal Finance, a Leeds-based consumer credit co...
