The aim of the agreement was to prevent the improper use of the country's bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of secrecy.

该协议的目的是防止人们不恰当地使用该国的银行保密法规，它的效果是严厉遏制保密制度。

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And while data have always been the most sought-after information on the World Bank website, few envisioned its power to effect change at the Bank.

一直以来，数据是人们最需要在世行网站上找到的信息。尽管如此，很少有人能预见到数据对引发世行内部变化所起的作用。

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The facility will deploy $9 of Fed loans for every dollar of TARP funds—the central bank can in effect print money at will.

这个工具将把用于问题资本拯救计划的美联储贷款的每一个美元扩展为9美元—中央银行能随意的印制美元。

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Well,the only people who would buy it are people who trust the bank that supports it, so in effect, the bank is promising to bail out the SIV if it should get in trouble.

只有人们相信设立SIV的银行的时候,他们才会去买SIV发行的票据,所以实际上,银行已经作出承诺,如果SIV陷入麻烦,银行会出面解决

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Under Massachusetts law, when he gave the bank money for the property, the bank in effect transferred the mortgage to him along with the title.

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And the cost to the supplier of immediate cash payment by the bank, in respect of the implicit interest rate or discount on the bill, ought to be tiny - because the bank is in effect lending to the safe big company, which ultimately honours the bill, not to the riskier supplier.

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So after the new bank law went into effect, Mr Wu had a call from a well-informed banker at Macquarie, an Australian bank, asking whether he was interested in Business Development Bank.

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