Übersetzung für "virtual bank " (Englisch → Deutsch) :

The European Central Bank in its last report on virtual currencies (February 2015) concluded that virtual currencies entail certain risks but do not at this point in time pose a threat to financial stability due to their still limited size – around 70,000 transactions are made daily on virtual currency platforms, worth around €40 million.

Applying the same measures in all Member States will avoid having loopholes in Europe, where terrorists could run operations through countries with lower levels of protection; Enhancing the powers of EU Financial Intelligence Units and facilitating their cooperation: the scope of information accessible by the Financial Intelligence Units will be widened, in line with the latest international standards; Centralised national bank and payment account registers or central data retrieval systems in all Member States: the Directive will be amended to give Financial Intelligence Units easier and faster access to information on the holders of ...[+++]bank and payment accounts; Tackling terrorist financing risks linked to virtual currencies: to prevent their abuse for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes, the Commission proposes to bring virtual currency exchange platforms under the scope of the Anti-Money Laundering Directive, so that these platforms have to apply customer due diligence controls when exchanging virtual for real currencies, ending the anonymity associated with such exchanges; Tackling risks linked to anonymous pre-paid instruments (e.g. pre-paid cards): the Commission proposes to lower thresholds for identification and widening customer verification requirements. Due account will be taken of proportionality, in particular with regard to the use of these cards by financially vulnerable citizens.

A dedicated ring-fenced and virtual bank, wholly owned by Post Office Limited, will be established to coincide with the launch of the compulsory migration process in April 2003.

Poul Nielson signs co-financing agreement between European Commission and World Bank for the African Virtual University (AVU)

Following discussions in Washington and Brussels, the European Commissioner for Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Aid, Mr Poul Nielson, has announced that the Commission had given its green light to part-fund the World Bank's Higher Education IT initiative known as the African Virtual University (AVU).

The project involves financing, up to a ceiling of ECU 3.35 million, the equipping and operation of the Agency for Financing and Promoting Free Enterprise in Niger for five years and placing at its disposal, in two private banks, an ECU 8.65 million credit line, to be used in conjunction with these two establishments to provide or reintroduce access to financing for private investment, which is at present virtually non- existent as a result of the collapse of the banking system.