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Friedrich Merz will meet Klaas Knot and Pablo Hernandez de Cos, the two frontrunners to succeed Christine Lagarde, as three ECB posts fall vacant. People familiar said Berlin has dropped Joachim Nagel and is weighing the chief economist and markets seats instead.
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BIS researchers found 55.2% of investment into AI firms in 2021-2025 came from other AI firms. Supply-chain deals are nearly half of that in-sector money, so about a quarter of all the capital comes from investors who trade with the companies they back.
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Euro-area firms are paying for AI without new debt, ECB survey data shows, while the five largest US tech firms carry $3 trillion in debt. That keeps European balance sheets out of a cooling AI bond market, but the compute gap with the US still has to be closed some other way.
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Stablecoin issuers have added about $200 billion of Treasuries in five years, roughly 0.05% of the IIF's $365 trillion global debt tally. The bid matters in a US bill market that foreign buyers are leaving, and even the projected $400 billion for 2030 would be about 0.1% of world debt.
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BIS data on 130 economies show stablecoin flows rise with currency stress, as dollar deposits do, while appearing less affected by capital controls. Turkey's roughly $38 billion of lira swapped into stablecoins in a year shows how large that harder-to-block channel already is.
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MOUs with six large asset managers aim to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI factories. Nothing is funded yet, but the underwriting model already changes who sets compute prices.
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ECB policymakers on 24 September authorised a feasibility study of joining TIPS to Pix, Brazil's network of about 250 million daily transfers. With no live date set, any saving over correspondent banks rests on how payment providers price the currency conversion left to them.
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Ant International says its upgraded forecasting model is in production at Citi, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered and Barclays, with a claim of 60% lower hedging costs attached.
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The Responsible Fintech Institute has put NIST-standardized signing in front of supervisors from Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta. The code that would let anyone check the work comes later.
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Reuters says Nvidia is in talks to anchor Anthropic's listing with up to $10bn, on top of the $10bn already committed to a company it supplies with chips. Anyone renewing a Claude contract inherits that tie.
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SAMA says it finished the proof of concept it joined to run and stopped there. The platform it left has cleared more than $55bn, a 2,500-fold rise that works back to roughly $22m of traffic in 2022.
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DIGITEC, 360T with CobaltFX and FastFin Labs all shipped FX swap automation in April 2025. The friction is the real-time credit check. Tradeweb reports growth on the emerging markets side.
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A speech the BIS published on September 15 puts the Pontes settlement link live this month, Appia's market integration in 2028 and a possible first digital euro issuance in 2029, with the legislation that date depends on due by late this year.
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The Saudi central bank spent about two years on China's CBDC settlement rail without committing to it. The four central banks still on mBridge now take a platform with roughly $55.5bn of volume toward commercial rollout, and the BIS is gone.
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The OCC has conditionally approved Bastion Platforms National Trust Company to issue, custody and convert stablecoins on behalf of clients, a fee business housed inside a charter that bars deposits and FDIC cover.
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In a Forbes Tech Council column, IRALOGIX CTO Charlie Gautreaux says the live capability sits on a transfer-agency book of about $8.6 trillion and 7.6 million investor accounts, and he names three tests of whether it holds.
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An American Banker opinion piece argues that GPU-backed loans audit serial numbers and liens while the compute that repays them goes unmetered, and it points at power finance, where lenders advance against settled megawatt hours.
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The Bank for International Settlements read about 100 billion records off Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron and concluded onchain indicators are rough approximations. Anything priced off them inherits the spread.
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Pablo Hernandez de Cos told Jackson Hole that tokenized deposits look more promising than stablecoins. The number underneath that judgement is a $307bn float turning over roughly 202 times a year, mostly not for goods.
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CoreWeave has disclosed $5.1bn of equipment financing and Nebius says debt plus one customer contract covers more than 100% of a deployment's capex, which turns an enterprise compute order into a credit judgement.
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