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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
On 1 August the SEC ended a nearly five-year freeze on new online lending platforms. Weeks earlier it asked Congress ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
From the year ending March 2026, Japan swapped its old solvency ratio for an economic-value regime built to the IAIS ...
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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...
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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...