Bankers’ Acceptances or Bearer Deposit Notes? What’s safer? What’s the difference?
This article was a long time in the making; I made interim notes in the post Seniority of Bankers’ Acceptances and republished a paper from the BoC Review, The Evolution of Bankers’ Acceptances in Canada.
Look for the research link!
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