Open Banking Standards in Georgia

Georgia Performance Standards

Cord Blood Banking Standards: Autologous Versus Altruistic

Cord blood (CB) is either donated to public CB banks for use by any patient worldwide for whom it is a match or stored in a private bank for potential autologous or family use. It is a unique cell product that has potential for treating life-threatening diseases. The majority of CB products used today are for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and are accessed from public banks. CB is stil...

Open standards, open formats, and open source

The paper proposes some comments and reflections on the notion of “openness” and on how it relates to three important topics: open standards, open formats, and open source. Often, these terms are considered equivalent and/or mutually implicated: “open source is the only way to enforce and exploit open standards”. This position is misleading, as it increases the confusion about this complex and ...

Central Banking in an Open Economy

At first glance, the reader may think that there is little connection between the empirical study of Bordo, Humpage, and Schwartz of the effect of foreign exchange market interventions by the Federal Reserve during 1973–1995 and the Glocker and Towbin quantitative DSGE model of reserve requirements in a small open economy with financial frictions.1 However, there are key links. Each study exami...

Implementation of Basel Ii Standards in Banking Sector in Serbia

Business environment in which banks in our country perform their activity is rather dynamic. Financial sector has, as in the most transitional countries, firstly started with the process of radical changes and continuous access to European business standards. In that sense, constant changes of legal regulations and bylaws that regulate this field set before the banks increasingly higher and mor...