While Lin Qi was planning how to satisfy everyone, Vera was already seated in the Permanent Director Unit's place at the World Bank Alliance conference.
As Blackstone Bank's representative, and with her position as the bank's deputy president, Vera was also one of the most closely watched people in the World Bank Alliance!
Blackstone Bank was somewhat different from the other federal banks. It was more adept at conducting international cooperation with international partners.
More than half the banks here had worked with Blackstone Bank before, whether by borrowing Federal Sol through short-term interbank loans or conducting international interbank settlements.
Some Small Country businesses could not produce enough Federal Sol to purchase federal products--
According to the World Development Committee's regulations and the Federation's actual standing in the world, Federal Sol had now become the most mainstream currency for international settlements.
Put simply, if a business wanted to purchase suitable products on the international market, products it needed, it first had to possess enough Federal Sol.
Except for large import and export businesses engaged in frequent bilateral trade that accepted currencies other than Federal Sol, basically all smaller federal exporters were unwilling to accept currencies other than Federal Sol.
It was not that they were being picky. Those currencies were not very useful to them even if they took them!
They could not use foreign currencies within the Federation. Quite apart from whether the law allowed it, the fact that nobody could give them change was enough to give them a headache! There were large, comprehensive businesses, such as the Maliro United Development Company.
They were willing to accept Maliro's currency because they not only exported goods to Maliro but also conducted large-scale raw-material purchases and other business activities there.
They sold their goods for foreign currency, then used that