The implementation of the economic cycle: freedom, trust, duty. Николай Камзин
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СКАЧАТЬ be used travel (tourism) receipts issued by a major bank in different currencies. Cheque – monetary instrument prescribed form containing an order to pay the bank designated by him the currency to its owner. Form and check details are regulated by national and international laws (check the 1931 Convention, etc.).

      If payment is made by check, the debtor (buyer) either alone puts a check (check the client), or shall refer it to the bank statement (check the bank).

      Road (coach) check – a payment document, the monetary obligation (order) to pay the amount indicated on it the owner of the check. It is issued by major banks in national and foreign currency.

      Eurocheque – check in the Euro-currency issued by a bank customer without prior payment of cash and in larger amounts through a bank loan of up to 1 month. He is paid in any currency of the country – member agreement. Eurocheque in force since 1968.

      In the international accounts are actively used bank cards (Visa, MasterCard, CirusMaestro, Union Card, DinerS Club, and American Express).

      International operations are carried out with the help of computers, electronic signals in the form of entries in the memory banks of computers, transmitted via remote communication. Information is passed on interbank settlements through SWIFT. Joint Stock Company – Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication Network (since 1977) serves about four thousand banks and financial institutions nearly 100 countries.

      Currency clearing – settlements in the form of mandatory set-off of international requirements and obligations on the basis of intergovernmental agreements. Unlike the domestic interbank clearing of mutual credits at the exchange clearing not made voluntarily, and without fail in the presence of an intergovernmental agreement. For the first time foreign exchange clearing was introduced in 1931 amid the global economic crisis. They are widely spread before and especially after World War II (with 74 – in 1935 to 400 bilateral clearing – in 1950). In 1950 – 1958's. multilateral clearing – EUROPEAN PAYMENTS UNION (EPU) – covered 17 countries in Western Europe.

      Due to clearing international payments exporters and importers made in national currency with the clearing banks, which produce a final set-off of mutual claims and obligations. Exporters are not foreign and local currency. Importers bring in national currency clearing bank.

      Bank for International Settlements (Basel) is the agent bank clearing. William Shakespeare wrote: «If there be nothing new, but that which is, hath been before»[44], was a question about the effectiveness of the regulatory activities of international monetary institutions, which in conditions of crisis in the global system has fallen significantly, prompting several governments located in the band to do disruption reconstruction of the whole system of currency regulation.

      Historically, the following features of the main forms of international payments:

      – Importers and exporters, as well as their banks to enter into definite relations associated with the payment of title and documents.

      – International operations are regulated by legislation and banking regulations.

      – International operations – the object of unification and universalization of banking operations. In 1930 and 1931 accepted international promissory notes and checks Convention (Geneva), aimed at harmonizing the bill and voucher laws. The Commission on International Trade Law United Nations (UNCITRAL) continues to unify the Bills of Exchange Act. International Chamber of Commerce, established in Paris in the early XX century, Develops Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, the collection and contract guarantees. For example, the first rules were developed for collection in 1936, and then revised in 1967 and 1968. Adheres to these rules, the majority of banks in the world.

      – International operations are usually documentary in nature, which is exercised against the financial and commercial documents.

      The financial instruments include promissory notes (promissory and transfer), checks, payment receipts.

      Commercial documents include invoices, shipping documents evidencing shipment or dispatch (bills of lading, receipts, etc.), insurance documents insurance companies, other documents (certificates, bills, etc.).

      The bank verifies the content and completeness of these documents.

      Chapter 2

      Organization of payments and the order of execution of mutual financial obligations in international economic cooperation

      1. International operations as part of the international monetary and financial relations

      1.1. The evolution of the global monetary system as a factor development of the international monetary and financial relations

      International monetary system-enshrined in international agreements, a form of organization of monetary and financial relations, which operate independently or serving the international movement of goods and factors of production[45].

      Monetary and financial system is a necessary step to promote international trade in goods, financial instruments and the movement of factors of production. It consists of two elements. Currency components of the system is the national currency, the terms of their mutual convertibility and circulation, exchange rate parity, exchange rates and national and international mechanisms of its regulation.

      Financial elements of the system are the international financial markets and trading mechanisms to specific financial instruments – currency, securities, and loans.

      Independent element of the international financial system is the international settlements, serving as the movement of goods and factors of production and financial instruments.

      International financing mechanisms are key elements of macroeconomic adjustment, which is carried out in the country's open economy.

      Currency is divided according to its membership to:

      – the national currency – legal tender in the issuing of countries;

      – foreign currency – legal tender in other countries, used in that country.

      Classifications can be varied for different characters, in order to achieve the objectives of the study relevant is the following: reserve currency – the currency in which the state held its liquid international reserves used to cover the negative balance of payments.

      Generally accepted in the world currency, which is accumulated by central banks in foreign exchange reserves. It serves as an investment asset, is a method of determining the exchange parity used as a tool of foreign exchange intervention, if necessary, as well as for the central bank for international settlements.

      The most important characteristic is the degree of currency convertibility them – the ability of residents and non-free and unrestricted exchange and use in transactions with real financial assets.

      From the standpoint of balance of payments is convertible for current transactions, capital transactions and complete, and in terms of residents – domestic and foreign.

      The classification of exchange rate systems based on what is recognized as a reserve asset, that is, with the help of an asset can be settled by the imbalances in international payments. By this criterion standard monetary systems are divided into gold, gold exchange, devising. During different periods of history such assets were gold, the dollar convertible into gold at a fixed rate, any currency accepted for international payments, but above all, freely usable currencies.

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<p>44</p>

Shakespeare W. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. – Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1865. P. 65. (ничто не вечно под луной).

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Киреев А.П. Международная экономика. В 2-х ч. – Ч. II. Международная макроэкономика: открытая экономика и макроэкономическое программирование. – М.: Международные отношения. 2001. – С. 18.