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The EU Pushed Its AI Credit and Insurance Deadline to December 2027. The Live Obligations Stayed Put.
AI & ML WORLD

The EU Pushed Its AI Credit and Insurance Deadline to December 2027. The Live Obligations Stayed Put.

The Digital Omnibus bought creditworthiness and insurance-pricing models sixteen more months, but the rules already biting did not move, and the split deadline hands financial firms a compliance tr...

Lois Vance · · 6 min read
Nigeria Beat Europe to T+1. For Foreign Money, the Dollar Queue Still Sets the Clock.
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Nigeria Beat Europe to T+1. For Foreign Money, the Dollar Queue Still Sets the Clock.
· 5 min read
China Wins the AI Workload, the US Keeps the Wallet
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China Wins the AI Workload, the US Keeps the Wallet
· 5 min read
The UK Forced Banks to Refund Scam Victims. A Year On, the Deterrence Question Is Still Open.
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The UK Forced Banks to Refund Scam Victims. A Year On, the Deterrence Question Is Still Open.
· 5 min read

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Indonesia Has Run a Fully Enforceable Data Law for Two Years Without the Regulator It Mandates
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Indonesia Has Run a Fully Enforceable Data Law for Two Years Without the Regulator It Mandates
Law 27 of 2022 has carried administrative fines of up to 2 percent of annual revenue since October 2024, yet the dedi...
· 5 min
Eight in Ten Under-16s Are Still Logging In, Eight Months Into Australia's Social-Media Ban
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Eight in Ten Under-16s Are Still Logging In, Eight Months Into Australia's Social-Media Ban
The eSafety Commissioner's own three-month data shows 81.5% of 10-to-15s still on the platforms, because the age chec...
· 6 min
China Carves a Small-Business Lane Through Its Data-Export Wall, Live 1 September
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China Carves a Small-Business Lane Through Its Data-Export Wall, Live 1 September
Beijing is simplifying data-export compliance for firms that process fewer than 100,000 people, and keeping the full ...
· 5 min

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China Wins the AI Workload, the US Keeps the Wallet
Chinese open-weight models now route more tokens than American ones, yet earn a rounding error of the revenue. The ga...
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The EU Answered a Severe AI Warning With the Rulebook It Already Had
Three weeks after the ESRB called frontier-AI cyber risk "severe," the EU's three financial supervisors answered with...
· 5 min
AI & ML WORLD
The EU AI Act's First Binding Deadline Lands Sunday. It Is Not The One Brussels Deferred.
Article 50's transparency rules bind every chatbot, deepfake and generative-AI provider selling into the EU from Augu...
· 5 min

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Nigeria Beat Europe to T+1. For Foreign Money, the Dollar Queue Still Sets the Clock.
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Nigeria Beat Europe to T+1. For Foreign Money, the Dollar Queue Still Sets the Clock.
On 1 June Nigeria became Africa's first T+1 market, three years ahead of Europe's 2027 switch, but the constraint tha...
· 5 min
The UK Forced Banks to Refund Scam Victims. A Year On, the Deterrence Question Is Still Open.
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The UK Forced Banks to Refund Scam Victims. A Year On, the Deterrence Question Is Still Open.
The PSR's first-year evaluation shows mandatory reimbursement cut Faster Payments fraud by roughly £73m a year, but t...
· 5 min
NVIDIA's Blowout Quarter Buried the Real Story: the AI Buildout Just Moved Into the Bond Market.
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NVIDIA's Blowout Quarter Buried the Real Story: the AI Buildout Just Moved Into the Bond Market.
Everyone read the 96 billion dollar top line. The disclosure that matters was the financing: even the sector's cash k...
· 6 min
Nigeria's Central Bank Opens Its Sandbox to Crypto. The Real Test Is the Split With the SEC.
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Nigeria's Central Bank Opens Its Sandbox to Crypto. The Real Test Is the Split With the SEC.
Cohort 2's virtual-asset track is the first live stress test of a CBN/SEC division that a July executive order wrote ...
· 5 min
APRA Moved From AI Guidance to Enforceable Expectations. It Never Has to Explain the Model.
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APRA Moved From AI Guidance to Enforceable Expectations. It Never Has to Explain the Model.
Australia's prudential regulator turned AI risk from advice into a baseline it intends to test, and its sharpest move...
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The Philippines Reopened Online Lending. Its Regulator Wants Out of the Business Entirely.
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The Philippines Reopened Online Lending. Its Regulator Wants Out of the Business Entirely.
On 1 August the SEC ended a nearly five-year freeze on new online lending platforms. Weeks earlier it asked Congress ...
· 5 min
South Korea Just Made the Crypto-Exchange License a Prudential Test. The Gate Is a Balance Sheet.
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South Korea Just Made the Crypto-Exchange License a Prudential Test. The Gate Is a Balance Sheet.
From 20 August, Seoul screens who owns an exchange and caps operator leverage at a 200% debt ratio, months before it ...
· 6 min
China Wrote One Disclosure Rulebook for Bank, Insurance and Trust Products. Look-Through Is What Makes It Bite.
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China Wrote One Disclosure Rulebook for Bank, Insurance and Trust Products. Look-Through Is What Makes It Bite.
A single framework taking effect on 1 September pulls bank wealth management, insurance asset management and trust pr...
· 6 min
The US and Europe Settle the Same Trade a Day Apart. That Gap Runs Until October 2027.
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The US and Europe Settle the Same Trade a Day Apart. That Gap Runs Until October 2027.
Washington shortened its settlement cycle in May 2024 and left Europe a day behind on the same cross-border trades. C...
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Japan Ran the Global Insurance Capital Standard First. Its Insurers Cleared It on a Lower Floor.
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Japan Ran the Global Insurance Capital Standard First. Its Insurers Cleared It on a Lower Floor.
From the year ending March 2026, Japan swapped its old solvency ratio for an economic-value regime built to the IAIS ...
· 6 min
RBI is trading the bank-board checklist for principles. The direction of travel is the story.
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RBI is trading the bank-board checklist for principles. The direction of travel is the story.
The Reserve Bank of India's Governance Amendment Directions 2026 scrap the "seven broad themes" for principle-based b...
· 5 min
Indonesia Puts Finfluencers Inside a Licensing Perimeter, and Keeps the Power to Block Them
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Indonesia Puts Finfluencers Inside a Licensing Perimeter, and Keeps the Power to Block Them
OJK POJK 6 of 2026 wraps a licensing perimeter around financial-sector content, pushes liability up to the banks, and...
· 6 min

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Indonesia Has Run a Fully Enforceable Data Law for Two Years Without the Regulator It Mandates
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Indonesia Has Run a Fully Enforceable Data Law for Two Years Without the Regulator It Mandates
· 5 min read
Eight in Ten Under-16s Are Still Logging In, Eight Months Into Australia's Social-Media Ban
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Eight in Ten Under-16s Are Still Logging In, Eight Months Into Australia's Social-Media Ban
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China Carves a Small-Business Lane Through Its Data-Export Wall, Live 1 September
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China Carves a Small-Business Lane Through Its Data-Export Wall, Live 1 September
· 5 min read
Nigeria's Central Bank Opens Its Sandbox to Crypto. The Real Test Is the Split With the SEC.
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Nigeria's Central Bank Opens Its Sandbox to Crypto. The Real Test Is the Split With the SEC.
· 5 min read
APRA Moved From AI Guidance to Enforceable Expectations. It Never Has to Explain the Model.
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APRA Moved From AI Guidance to Enforceable Expectations. It Never Has to Explain the Model.
· 5 min read
The Philippines Reopened Online Lending. Its Regulator Wants Out of the Business Entirely.
Finance WORLD
The Philippines Reopened Online Lending. Its Regulator Wants Out of the Business Entirely.
· 5 min read
South Korea Just Made the Crypto-Exchange License a Prudential Test. The Gate Is a Balance Sheet.
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South Korea Just Made the Crypto-Exchange License a Prudential Test. The Gate Is a Balance Sheet.
· 6 min read
China Wrote One Disclosure Rulebook for Bank, Insurance and Trust Products. Look-Through Is What Makes It Bite.
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China Wrote One Disclosure Rulebook for Bank, Insurance and Trust Products. Look-Through Is What Makes It Bite.
· 6 min read