The FINANCIAL -- In a speech delivered at the BAFT-IFSA Global Annual Meeting on 24 January 2012, Chris Salmon, Executive Director for Banking Services and Chief Cashier, describes how the financial crisis has influenced the perspective of financial stability policymakers towards payment operations,according to The Bank of England.

The FINANCIAL -- Thousands of people in urban and rural areas of the state of Sergipe will have access to improved water services through the Sergipe Water Project, thanks to a World Bank loan for US$70.3 millions announced, according to the World Bank .

the FINANCIAL -- Better quality of life for more than half a million daily commuters, most of them poor, and the reduction of 93.700 tons of greenhouse gas emissions -equivalent to over 25,000 gasoline passenger cars per year- will be the main benefits of the Upgrading and Greening the Rio de Janeiro Urban Rail System Project, financed with a US$600 million loan approved today by the World Bank Board, according the World Bank . 

The FINANCIAL -- The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank   approved the eighth poverty reduction support grant of US$100 million for Ghana, according to the World Bank .This facility was processed within the harmonized Multi Donor Budget Support framework.

The FINANCIAL -- The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank has approved the fifth Governance Reform and Growth Credit for Sierra Leone of US$ 24 million as a one-tranche budget support disbursement, according to the World Bank .