A damning internal audit found that in most cases when the IFC
uses financial intermediaries to disburse funds, recipient corporations simply carry on with business as usual, rather than improving their sustainability practices.
By
using financial intermediaries such as revolving community loan funds, many religious orders, judicatories and local congregations can provide below - market loan capital that helps to make marginal projects viable.
When development finance institutions have tried to respond to the challenges of working with MSMEs, they have tended to
use financial intermediaries to deploy funds.
Not exact matches
Consumers who
use a
financial advisor as their
intermediary can avoid the most common estate - planning and last will and testament errors.
Other
financial intermediaries don't do exactly this, but there is a general theme of making money by
using the customers» stuff when the customers aren't
using it.
«
Financial intermediaries, such as asset managers and fiduciaries, can make
use of our new offering to successfully differentiate themselves in the market and add value for their clients.»
Blockchain technologies can be
used as a store of value, in trading and payment transactions, and to transfer and move money either domestically or international at a faster speed and a lower cost than the traditional
financial institution or
intermediary is able to — just to name a few
use cases.
Where
financial systems were previously clunky, slow, and expensive to
use, bitcoin provides a common language that computers can
use to transfer money quickly and securely, and at a potentially much lower cost because it is a system with no
intermediaries or banks.
This shouldn't be a problem — after all,
financial institutions and
financial services firms are just
intermediaries in the economy, allocating capital to its highest and best
use.
HMRC is consulting until 27 February 2017 on a proposed new legal requirement for
intermediaries (both within and outside the UK) creating or promoting certain complex offshore
financial arrangements to notify HMRC of the details and provide a list of clients
using them.
In the same way that we can now send cash to somebody through the internet without an
intermediary (bank or
financial institution)
using bitcoin, so we are enabled to send messages to each other, without Gmail or iMessage, Facebook or Twitter «owning» or having access to what we say.
Where public market investments rely on several
financial organizations to perform various services from acquisition and development to offering diversified portfolios of REITs, Fundrise
uses technology to consolidate these functions and reduce the number of
intermediaries in the value chain.
For example, should it occur, the Funds may not be able to detect market timing that may be facilitated by
financial intermediaries or made difficult to identify in the omnibus accounts
used by those
intermediaries for aggregated purchases, exchanges and redemptions on behalf of all their customers.
If you
use a broker or
financial intermediary, you may contact them.
In certain instances, a fund or your
financial intermediary is required to collect documents, which will be
used solely to establish and verify your identity.
What about a system wherein Steam acts as a
financial intermediary, only loaning the cash it receives from users and
using that money to wipe the debt clean only when the game reaches a satisfactory state?
«It is important that
financial intermediaries (including non-designated finance professionals, such as lawyers and businesses) take measures to ensure they are not unwittingly
used to launder money or to finance terrorism.»
In October 2017, IBM partnered with Stellar to
use its Lumens coin as a
financial intermediary in cross-border transactions in the South Pacific region processed on IBM's blockchain platform.
Bitcoin was launched in 2009 as the world's first cryptocurrency with the aim to provide a decentralized digital payment system that anyone can
use without the need for a bank or any other
financial intermediary.
Bitcoin (BTC), for example, allows anyone in the world with an Internet connection to «be their own bank» by providing a digital peer - to - peer payment network that does not require the
use of any
intermediaries to store, send and receive
financial payments.
In some cases, these
intermediaries play a valuable role, but in others, it's hard to see what argument remains for funding them rather than funding the poor directly — especially given the overwhelming evidence that poor people generally
use money responsibly, improve their lives, and in some cases achieve quite impressive
financial returns.»
The 1031 Exchange Qualified
Intermediary should be happy to provide you with more detailed information regarding the specific investment vehicles, strategies and
financial institutions
used by them for your 1031 Exchange funds.