Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

• settlement risk is

  • due to weak (or high cost) legal system
  • important in international contracts

[because international law is poorly enforceable]

• BIS (1996) report:

urges banks & central banks

• to cooperate [to reduce exposure to settlement risk]

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a drawback - need of capital controls,

an advantage - variability across the countries