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| | Loosely, a group of 7 industrialised countries comprising Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. |
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| An international organisation fostering international monetary and financial cooperation, the Bank serves as a bank for central banks and also hosts a number of international organisations.
| | More strictly, a meeting of the finance ministers from those countries. |
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| Customers are exclusively central banks and international organisations.
| | Also known as the Group of Seven or G7. |
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| It was established by agreement between the parties (plus Switzerland) to arrangements after World War I for payment of reparations by Germany to the principal allied victors. Its mandate and membership was extended and it is now a principal hub of cooperation between central banks and non-central-bank bank supervisors generally.
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| It has 60 central banks as its members.
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
| * [[Bank of England]] | | * [[G-20]] |
| * [[Bank supervision]] | | * [[G-77]] |
| * [[Basel Committee on Banking Supervision]] | | * [[G-8]] |
| * [[Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System]]
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| * [[Central bank]]
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| * [[European Central Bank]]
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| * [[Markets Committee]]
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Revision as of 13:38, 9 April 2014
Loosely, a group of 7 industrialised countries comprising Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
More strictly, a meeting of the finance ministers from those countries.
Also known as the Group of Seven or G7.
See also
