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Balance of payments surplusA number summarizing the state of a country's international transactions, usually equal to the balance on current account plus the balance on capital account. This equals zero* and is uninformative under the modern definition of the latter, but with official reserve transactions excluded, or omitting also other volatile short-term capital-account transactions, it indicates the stress on a regime of pegged exchange rates.Similar MatchesBalance of payments deficitBalance of payments deficitA negative balance of payments surplus. Lag response of prepaymentsLag response of prepaymentsA delay of typically about three months between the time the weighted-average coupon of an MBS pool crosses the threshold for refinancing and observation of an acceleration in prepayment speed is observed. Balance of paymentsBalance of payments1. A list, or accounting, of all of a country's international transactions for a given time period, usually one year. Payments into the country (receipts) are entered as positive numbers, called credits; payments out of the country (payments) are entered as negative numbers called debits. 2. A single number summarizing all of a country's international transactions: the balance of payments surplus. Payments patternPayments patternDescribes the collection pattern of receivables. The pattern might describe the probability that a 72-day-old account will still be unpaid when it is 73 days-old. Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS)Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS)An international wire transfer system for high-value payments operated by a group of major banks. Further Suggestionsbalance of paymentsEuropean Payments Union Periodic payments maintenance payments Transfer payments Balance of payments equilibrium Payments imbalance Payments netting Balance of payments argument for protection transfer payments Progress payments Balance of payments Installment payments Prepayments Clearing House Automated Payments System (CHAPS) Balance of payments adjustment mechanism Interest payments |
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