Evolution of money
This early system involved exchanging goods and services directly without money.
What is the barter system?
What does IMF stand for?
What is International Monetary Fund?
Markets allowing governments and companies to raise long-term funds across borders.
What are international capital markets?
This monetary system (1870s–1914) backed currencies with gold.
What is the Gold Standard?
An international financial institution established in 1944 to reduce poverty and promote shared prosperity in developing countries
What is the World Bank?
Bonds issued outside the borrower's home country belong to this market.
What is the international bond market?
This system established fixed exchange rates pegged to the US dollar after WWII.
What is the Bretton Woods System?
This organization is often referred to as the world’s “financial firefighter.”
What is the IMF?
Companies listing shares on multiple exchanges internationally.
What is cross-listing?
After 1973, currencies were determined by supply and demand.
What is the Modern floating exchange rate system?
What major sector collapsed during COVID-19, Increasing Jamaica’s need for IMF support?
What is Tourism?
US dollars deposited outside the United States are called this.
What are Eurodollars?
Name the three major currency blocs after the gold standard collapse.
What are the Sterling Area, Dollar Area,
and Gold Bloc?
The World Bank Group comprises of five(5) constituent Institutions. List Three(3).
What is
The International Finance Corporation (IFC)
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
The International Development Association (IDA)
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
The three(3) main components of the international Capital Market.
what is
International Bond Market
International equity Market
Eurocurrency Market