Hawallah is a recordless, traditional system widely used to change currency, send money abroad, hide assets from tax authorities in South Asia and the Middle East.
El Salvador's economic policies have been geared to the change of currency.
Particular industries may gain from a currency change, but the economy as a whole is hurt.
Total sales for Mattel were flat, after an unfavorable currency change of 4%.
This may lead European companies to raise prices to cover higher costs, erasing or limiting any benefits of the currency change for Americans.
Bank accounts would be converted from euros to new drachmas, and domestic debt and other contracts would change to the new currency.
The currency will change from the Netherlands Antillean guilder, known as the florin, to the Caribbean guilder in 2013, but prices are typically quoted in US dollars.
The single currency would change Europe's labour markets because it would make it harder for governments to adjust macroeconomic policies to suit circumstances in their own economies.
But European investors are also adjusting to another, possibly more permanent, change: a European single currency, due in 1999.
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New rules allowing foreign enterprises to more freely change yuan into their own currency are likely to affect only large transactions.
After his mother in Somalia has received and confirmed the bitcoin transaction (approximately 10 minutes), she would be able to maintain the bitcoin balance or change it out into her local currency, the Somali shilling.
One explanation for the abrupt change of mood is that weaker demand in the currency zone's main foreign markets have at last started to hurt the economy.
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On top of budget and currency concerns has come near-perpetual institutional change.
Dutch painters of the era maintained dizzyingly exalted standards of excellence across a range of genres, working for a market in which history paintings functioned as large-denomination currency and still-lifes were useful small change.
In the euro area, the introduction of the single currency and the creation of an integrated financial market will change both the definition of the money supply and its relationship to inflation.
Myanmar said it would float its currency, effective Sunday, a long-sought policy change that is expected to make the resource-rich Southeast Asian country more inviting to foreign investors following decades of pariah-nation status.
Retailers want to speed things up by being allowed to give change in euros only, even if a shopper has paid with national currency.
The problem for many companies is they only consider their currency exposure on a quarter over quarter basis over which the change may not be so substantial.
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Ominously, though we currently retain reserve currency status, most of the world thinks this is about to change.
Such a decision negates both the risk of being pick-pocketed and the stresses associated with the logistics of obtaining a favorable currency exchange while adding a measure of comfort to the whirlwind of change presented by a foreign place.
If a single currency happens and is a success, he has plenty of time to change his mind.
The ideas behind Mr Moore's agenda were gaining currency around the world, and New Zealand was in the vanguard of change.
Toyota Japan told the BBC that it wants to minimise its "currency risk exposure", but has not set a date for the change-over yet.
Both the German Unemployment Change and Euro area flash CPI estimates missed their forecast levels and put pressure on the common currency.
So we are alive and well in Zimbabwe, getting ready for the change that HAS to come, for the sake of those who don't have foreign currency stowed away for a rainy day.
Soon after, Mr Trichet oversaw the change to an anti-inflationary franc fort (strong franc) policy, to pave the way for currency union with the strong, low-inflation German mark.
In the long term, fixed currency rates were a recipe for trouble because when economic times changed currencies, conversion rates needed to change as well to keep the economy in equilibrium.
Together with other currency rate adjustments, the company is looking at a JPY 50 billion drop in operating profit from this change, and is factoring this into profit forecasts.
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