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Japan Ran the Global Insurance Capital Standard First. Its Insurers Cleared It on a Lower Floor.
Finance WORLD

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 standard the rest of the world is still arguing about. The first scorecard is in...

Lois Vance · · 6 min read
RBI is trading the bank-board checklist for principles. The direction of travel is the story.
Finance WORLD
RBI is trading the bank-board checklist for principles. The direction of travel is the story.
· 5 min read
Indonesia Puts Finfluencers Inside a Licensing Perimeter, and Keeps the Power to Block Them
Finance WORLD
Indonesia Puts Finfluencers Inside a Licensing Perimeter, and Keeps the Power to Block Them
· 6 min read
China Made Lenders Print the True Price of a Loan. The Fee Stack Lost Its Cover.
Finance WORLD
China Made Lenders Print the True Price of a Loan. The Fee Stack Lost Its Cover.
· 5 min read

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The EU AI Act's First Binding Deadline Lands Sunday. It Is Not The One Brussels Deferred.
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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
Claude Opus 5 Costs Half What Anthropic Charges for Fable 5. Anthropic Ships Both.
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Claude Opus 5 Costs Half What Anthropic Charges for Fable 5. Anthropic Ships Both.
Anthropic launched near-frontier Claude Opus 5 at 5 and 25 dollars per million tokens, half the price of the flagship...
· 6 min
TSMC Reports Thursday. The Constraint on AI Chips Is CoWoS Capacity, Not 2nm Wafers.
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TSMC Reports Thursday. The Constraint on AI Chips Is CoWoS Capacity, Not 2nm Wafers.
TSMC's 2026 budget runs to about $56 billion, with up to a fifth aimed at advanced packaging. That back-end capacity,...
· 5 min

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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
AI & ML WORLD
Claude Opus 5 Costs Half What Anthropic Charges for Fable 5. Anthropic Ships Both.
Anthropic launched near-frontier Claude Opus 5 at 5 and 25 dollars per million tokens, half the price of the flagship...
· 6 min
AI & ML WORLD
The EU Just Bought Lenders and Insurers 16 More Months on High-Risk AI. The Obligations Didn't Shrink.
The Annex III deadline everyone circled for 2 August moves to December 2027 under the Digital Omnibus. The reprieve i...
· 6 min

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Japan Ran the Global Insurance Capital Standard First. Its Insurers Cleared It on a Lower Floor.
Finance WORLD
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.
Finance WORLD
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
Finance WORLD
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
China Made Lenders Print the True Price of a Loan. The Fee Stack Lost Its Cover.
Finance WORLD
China Made Lenders Print the True Price of a Loan. The Fee Stack Lost Its Cover.
A single all-in cost disclosure form took effect on 1 August, and the ceilings lenders rushed to publish in response ...
· 5 min
Europe Wants a Single Supervisor for Crypto. The Fight Is Over Which Firms Count.
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Europe Wants a Single Supervisor for Crypto. The Fight Is Over Which Firms Count.
MiCA gave crypto firms one licence to trade across the EU, policed by whichever national regulator they chose to sit ...
· 5 min
Japan Rebuilt Its Crypto Travel Rule Around Equivalence
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Japan Rebuilt Its Crypto Travel Rule Around Equivalence
From 3 August, licensed exchanges must collect full sender and receiver data for transfers to 63 approved jurisdictio...
· 5 min
Saudi Arabia Just Opened Listed Private Credit to Retail. The Guardrails Are the Argument.
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Saudi Arabia Just Opened Listed Private Credit to Retail. The Guardrails Are the Argument.
New CMA rules let non-bank lending funds list on the Saudi Exchange and reach ordinary investors for the first time. ...
· 6 min
Brazil Draws the Line the G20 Won't: Stablecoins Can Be Held, Not Used as FX Plumbing
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Brazil Draws the Line the G20 Won't: Stablecoins Can Be Held, Not Used as FX Plumbing
Resolution 561 bars regulated foreign-exchange providers from settling the offshore leg of cross-border payments in c...
· 6 min
The $3 Trillion Saudi-UAE Rift Wall Street Can't Ignore
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The $3 Trillion Saudi-UAE Rift Wall Street Can't Ignore
The Gulf's two biggest capital pools were treated as interchangeable. A widening Riyadh-Abu Dhabi rivalry has quietly...
· 5 min
Britain Just Put the Four Companies That Run Its Banks Under Direct Financial Supervision
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Britain Just Put the Four Companies That Run Its Banks Under Direct Financial Supervision
HM Treasury designated AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle as Critical Third Parties on July 13, the first ...
· 5 min
The EU just closed the offshore banking door. Foreign banks now have until January to build a branch or stop writing new business.
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The EU just closed the offshore banking door. Foreign banks now have until January to build a branch or stop writing new business.
CRD6's grandfathering window shut on July 11. New deposit and lending contracts with EU customers no longer sit outsi...
· 5 min
Basel III Endgame, Take Two: The US Hands Banks $87.7bn Back. Britain Holds the Line.
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Basel III Endgame, Take Two: The US Hands Banks $87.7bn Back. Britain Holds the Line.
The Fed, OCC and FDIC re-proposed the endgame in March as net capital relief. Britain kept the tougher framework and ...
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Japan Rebuilt Its Crypto Travel Rule Around Equivalence
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Japan Rebuilt Its Crypto Travel Rule Around Equivalence
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The EU Answered a Severe AI Warning With the Rulebook It Already Had
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The EU Answered a Severe AI Warning With the Rulebook It Already Had
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Saudi Arabia Just Opened Listed Private Credit to Retail. The Guardrails Are the Argument.
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Saudi Arabia Just Opened Listed Private Credit to Retail. The Guardrails Are the Argument.
· 6 min read
Brazil Draws the Line the G20 Won't: Stablecoins Can Be Held, Not Used as FX Plumbing
Finance WORLD
Brazil Draws the Line the G20 Won't: Stablecoins Can Be Held, Not Used as FX Plumbing
· 6 min read
The $3 Trillion Saudi-UAE Rift Wall Street Can't Ignore
Finance WORLD
The $3 Trillion Saudi-UAE Rift Wall Street Can't Ignore
· 5 min read
Britain Just Put the Four Companies That Run Its Banks Under Direct Financial Supervision
Finance WORLD
Britain Just Put the Four Companies That Run Its Banks Under Direct Financial Supervision
· 5 min read
The EU just closed the offshore banking door. Foreign banks now have until January to build a branch or stop writing new business.
Finance WORLD
The EU just closed the offshore banking door. Foreign banks now have until January to build a branch or stop writing new business.
· 5 min read
Basel III Endgame, Take Two: The US Hands Banks $87.7bn Back. Britain Holds the Line.
Finance WORLD
Basel III Endgame, Take Two: The US Hands Banks $87.7bn Back. Britain Holds the Line.
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