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Central banks must steer tokenized payment shift, Riksbank warns
Traditional finance must actively adapt to decentralized ledgers and stablecoins while maintaining regulatory safeguards.
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European capital funded US rail networks before 1873 crash
A Bank for International Settlements address traced historical capital flows during the nineteenth-century Gründerzeit.
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Buch links supervisory independence to strict public accountability
ECB Supervisory Board Chair Claudia Buch called for systematic external scrutiny of banking supervision.
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Central banks must adapt to AI and geopolitical fragmentation
Central banks must balance institutional resilience against geopolitical fragmentation with adaptation to technological innovations such as artificial intelligence, according to introductory remarks delivered at a National Bank of Ukraine conference.
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Funding and scaling hurdles hold back European innovation
Europe must deepen its Single Market, build a savings and investments union, and upgrade critical infrastructure to overcome weak productivity growth.
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Demographics alter potential growth and equilibrium rates
The Bank of Korea opened a joint conference with the OECD and CEPR on September 24, 2026, exploring how rapid demographic ageing and artificial intelligence reshape potential growth, equilibrium interest rates and fiscal stability.
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Digital payment scale requires operational resilience and trust
Financial technology expansion requires robust operational resilience, clear algorithmic accountability and consumer protection.
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Financial factors drive widening global investment imbalances
Financial factors and valuation shifts have become the primary drivers of expanding global imbalances across 28 major economies, according to a Bank for International Settlements study.
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Final Basel III lifts Tier 1 capital needs by 2.2 percent
Large internationally active banks face an average Tier 1 capital requirement increase of 2.2 percent under the fully phased-in Basel III framework, based on end-2025 data.
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Third-country banks capture 60 percent of EU investment banking
Third-country groups now provide 60 percent of corporate and investment banking services to European clients despite historically high bank capital ratios, according to a speech delivered at an industry event in Dublin on September 22, 2026.
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Cash rate rises 75bp as inflation target delayed to late 2027
The Reserve Bank of Australia tightened policy by 75 basis points this year amid persistent inflation above 3.5 percent and external cost shocks from energy and technology markets.
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Cipollone affirms euro cash role as union marks 25 years
European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone reaffirmed the central bank's commitment to euro cash during a speech in Brussels.