G7 finance ministers and central bank governors approved tabletop exercises simulating AI-driven cyberattacks, Japan's Satsuki Katayama said in Bangkok. No start date or participant list has been published, so any test of banks is still undated.
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A central bank analysis found 55.2% of AI-firm investment came from other AI firms, a commentary on channelnewsasia.com reports. Nvidia's $30 billion OpenAI stake and up to $105 billion guarantee add to as much as $135 billion tied to its own chip demand.
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Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned that rising cyber-attacks risk undermining trust in finance. Georgieva said fraud could drive people out of the formal system, and Bailey pressed social media firms to share responsibility.
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IMF research finds more than 85% of overnight moves in tokenized U.S. stocks show up in the listed shares within five minutes of the open. The fund still wants ownership rules settled before a market this thin grows much larger.
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The IMF counted $65.1 billion of tokenized real-world assets at July 31 in its October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report. It rates systemic risk limited because the market is small, and lists legal certainty and safe settlement among four obstacles to broader adoption.
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The Financial Stability Board published an Oct. 12 report on cross-border stablecoin vulnerabilities ahead of the G20 finance ministers' Oct. 15 meeting. Reserves held in another country can leave issuers struggling to meet a run on a roughly $300 billion market, CryptoSlate reports; CryptoTimes says the report adds no new restriction on issuers.
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Tokenized repurchase agreements average $300 billion to $350 billion a day, the IMF said in its October 8 Global Financial Stability Report. Against the $13 trillion a day some analyses cite for US repo, that comes to 2 to 3 percent of the flow, on venues the fund calls fragmented and short of legal clarity.
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BIS Paper No. 174 argues data-centre power demand could blur the capacity-use and inflation readings central banks set interest rates by. A central bank that mistakes a data-centre power bill for overheating could tighten when the economy does not need it.
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Goldman Sachs estimates nearly $500 billion in AI-related debt was issued through early August 2026. The money pays for computing capacity, so whether AI labs can turn a profit now matters to the wider lending market.
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Hedge funds in the Treasury basis trade borrowed $3.0 trillion in repo as of July 2025, New York Fed data show, roughly what money market funds lend. Dealers stand between the two, so a pullback in money-fund cash would reach the basis traders through dealer balance sheets.
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Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok warns AI agents could move household cash out of 0.1% checking into accounts paying up to 5%, in near-unison. Banks lend that cash out assuming it stays put, and losing it would take away the cheap base that makes their lending profitable.
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Singapore's central bank says record bond sales by large tech firms are competing with government borrowing for long-duration capital. It counts the sector's own borrowing among the forces raising the hurdle rate its AI projects have to clear.
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Pablo Hernandez de Cos told the Fed's symposium that stablecoins cannot hold par across issuers or across chains, which puts the prudential bet on deposit tokens that stay bank liabilities settled in central bank money.
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