Central Bank Case
Central Bank of Canada-Banque du Canada
I. Roles and Mandates of Banque du Canada
According to the preamble in the Bank of Canada Act,(Weir, 2012) the Bank's mandate is to:
1. Regulate credit and currency
2. Control and protect the external value of the national monetary unit
3. Use monetary action to mitigate fluctuations in the general level of production, trade prices, and employment.
The Bank administers the nation’s currency, protects its value, and acts as the government's and chartered banks' official banker. The Bank of Canada's most important function is to set monetary policies that will promote a healthy economy. This is accomplished primarily through taking steps to raise and lower interest rates.
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The organization of the Bank integrated new functions with functions that already existed elsewhere. Bank note operations were transferred from the Department of Finance when the Bank opened, and the offices of the Receiver General across the country became the agencies of the Bank. A new Research Division was established to provide information and advice on financial developments and on general business conditions at home and abroad. The Foreign Exchange Division and the Securities Division became operative almost immediately, though the transfer of the Public Debt Division from the Department of Finance was delayed until suitable quarters were available. This did not occur until 1938, following completion of the present Bank of Canada building at 234 Wellington Street. (Banque du Canada, 2016) In the midst of the Great Depression, the Crown-in-Council attempted to uplift the people, and created two national corporations: the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC), and the Bank of Canada. The former, established in 1932, was seen as a means to keep the country unified and uplifted in these harsh economic times. Many poor citizens found radio as an escape and used it to …show more content…
For example in Japan, when the clients send the credits proposal, one of crew in the commercial bank will come to the client’s home as the guess and not showing the real identity or they might used different legal identity, in order to search the information of the client and looking for the truth of the data that have been send to the bank as the credits proposal. If all of the data is true, the banks will considered whether the proposal accepted or rejected, and if the data is not true, automaticaly the credit proposal will rejected by the banks. (Japan, 2016)
Not only in Japan, there are another commersial bank that have their own way to give the credit to the client’s. For example in Commercial Bank of Canadian, when they willing to give credits to the clients they will search the information in specifics about the client and also the family’s of the clients that wanted to lend money to the bank. (L. Canada, 2016) Included :
A job and verifiable income, if the client don’t have either, they will be hard pressed to find institution or even anyone that willing to lend them money. Because no body won’t to take risk with giving lend to someone that have not
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For Tenth National Bank, we have reason to believe that the client intercepted the paper confirmation. After we sent the paper confirmation to the bank, we received an email from Lou Jennings stating that the bank forwarded the confirmation directly to their office instead of sending it to the audit team. In addition, Mr. Jennings provided login credentials and a link to the bank’s website, which did not appear to be reliable. As per the video, “How to Fight Confirmation Fraud”, presented by the founder of confirmation.com, Brian Fox, a fictitious website can be created easily. Our skepticism toward the reliability of the website is based on the unresponsiveness of most of the links on the site; the only link that works is the login button. In addition the website appeared dated and rudimentary. Another factor we found quite strange is that the website only offers paper statement deliveries, which we find highly unusual since paper statements are easier to modify. Furthermore, based on the tracking provided by USPS, the letter is still in the shipping process with no indication that Tenth National Bank has officially received the request for confirmation. This further supports our theory that Lou Jennings intercepted the Tenth National Bank confirmation letter. In our o...
There were two major political consequences of the Great Depression. The first was that new political parties were formed in Canada. The new political parties were the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the Social Credit Party, and the Union Nationale (UN). The CCF was founded by J.S. Woodsworth and believed in the establishment of minimum wage, accident and sickness insurance, old age pensions and unemployment insurance. The Social Credit Party was founded by William Aberhart. He believed that governments should issue money to everyone so that they could buy goods in a form of “social credits”. In the 1935 provincial elections he took 56 of 63 seats giving him a total victory. The UN was founded by Maurice Duplessis due to the union of Action Liberale Nationale and the Conservative Party. They promoted the traditional values of the Catholic Church and believed in a rural lifestyle. The second political consequence was a conflicted relationship between the federal and the provincial governments. The depression showed the federal government that provincial governments did not have enough money to carry out significant projects.
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