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Global financial system

Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

Asean+3 weathered the last global tightening storm. What about the next?

The impending reduction in equity requirements resulting from a deregulatory push in the US will result in substantial additional risk to America's financial stability, say the writers.
Opinion & Features

The Federal Reserve’s other problem

Financial firms reconfigure their operations – from global integrators to jurisdictional separators, from efficiency maximisers to compliance optimisers, from universal service providers to selective gatekeepers.
Wealth & Investing

The impossible choice: tariffs, sanctions and fragmentation

research programmes and market incentives need to support faster innovation in digital assets that remain in their infancy.
Wealth & Investing

How cryptocurrencies accelerate geopolitical shifts

The greenback still accounts for around 60% of global foreign exchange reserves and is involved in nearly 90% of forex trading.
Wealth & Investing

The US dollar’s decline is not the end of its dominance

In the fourth quarter of last year, 58 per cent of global reserves were in dollars, down from 71 per cent in the first quarter of 1999, but far ahead of the euro’s 20 per cent.
Opinion & Features

Trump’s assault on the global dollar

epa11679350 Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) speaks during a plenary session in the outreach/BRICS Plus format at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, 24 October 2024. The BRICS summit takes place from 22 to 24 October. EPA-EFE/MAXIM SHEMETOV / POOL
Opinion & Features

The futile search for a US dollar rival

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Bank of Japan officials are edging closer to raising interest rates and will decide whether to move this month at next week’s policy meeting, according to people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Shoko Takayasu/Bloomberg
Banking & Finance

Japanese banks should stay vigilant against market tail risks, BOJ says

Gold’s price rise over the past 12 months has occurred despite some wild swings in expected policy rates, a wide fluctuation band for benchmark US yields, falling inflation and currency volatility.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

Why the West should be paying more attention to the gold price rise

International investors face a system in which the usual method of funding a US trade takes longer than they actually have to execute the deal.
Global Enterprise

US stock settlement switch faces early resilience test

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