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President of the European Central Bank since 2019, overseeing eurozone monetary policy; previously led the IMF and was France's finance minister.
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh says AI spending is hitting demand before supply, and the Fed and ECB both raised rates in September. Central bankers at the Bangkok IMF meetings tie the boom to a higher cost of money and to tighter budgets for governments that borrowed when rates hovered near zero.
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FSB told G20 finance chiefs on October 12 that global stablecoins, a market near $300 billion, have not been tested in a severe crisis. It wants cross-border data sharing, full adoption of its 2023 recommendations and failure-planning research.
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George Williamson, the Alan Turing Institute's new head, says the UK must not depend on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice. He wants a domestic fallback for critical services, built without trying to match the budgets of the frontier labs.
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Friedrich Merz will meet Klaas Knot and Pablo Hernandez de Cos, the two frontrunners to succeed Christine Lagarde, as three ECB posts fall vacant. People familiar said Berlin has dropped Joachim Nagel and is weighing the chief economist and markets seats instead.
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Stand With Crypto EU got more than 50,000 Europeans to write to the Commission's MiCA review asking that stablecoins be allowed to pay holders rewards. Europe's central banks used the same review to ask that the ban also cover lending, borrowing and staking yield, so the rule could end up wider as easily as looser.
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France says its new budget will overshoot EU spending limits and lift debt to a record near 122% of GDP, even after 54 billion euros of cuts. Lenders now face a ratio still climbing into next year's presidential election, with candidates split on how to bring it down.
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Philip Lane's September projections have euro-area inflation averaging 3.0% in 2026 and peaking at 3.6% in the fourth quarter, above the 2.50% policy rate the ECB set on the same day it upgraded growth.
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Thirteen banks including Deutsche Bank and Santander went live on September 21 with four ledger operators, and the ECB will put part of its own 23 billion euro portfolio into tokenised public sector debt.
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Washington is weighing joint ventures with private firms to spread dollar stablecoins overseas and enlarge a sector holding nearly $200 billion of T-bills. A Treasury advisory panel tied new bill demand to adoption by foreign users who held no dollars before.
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Dario Amodei's essay asks frontier labs to pace capability gains and asks for antitrust room to coordinate on safety. Europe's challengers, holding 11% of global AI venture funding, say the leaders wrote it for themselves.
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Binance spent about 18 months on its Greek MiCA file and withdrew it on June 24, a week before the deadline, after Greek officials had already told ESMA the regulator intended to approve.
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Christine Lagarde says Europeans can shun AI and lose growth or adopt it and depend on American and Chinese tools, while the safety debate that would set the technology's pace is run by two governments that have dismissed slowing down.
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The company published the number days before its Connect 2026 show, alongside ten directions that name the cluster hardware, memory systems and chip method it sells. The agent share is the part a budget has to absorb.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that ECB President Christine Lagarde urged Greece's prime minister to reject the application. Binance pulled out before any decision issued, so there is no refusal it can contest.
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Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed their combination. A regulated buyer that ran both model developers through the same evaluation is now choosing between one supplier and the sovereign stacks other vendors are assembling.
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Two months past the July 1 cutoff, the exchange with more than 45% of global spot volume still holds no MiCA licence. The visible regulatory step so far: ESMA asking for confirmation that the wind-down is real.
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EURR is issued by a Stripe-owned Luxembourg entity, not by Revolut. The regulated fintechs are distributing on-chain money; the balance-sheet obligation sits elsewhere.
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The ECB president told business leaders in Geneva that all three pillars of European growth are weakening at once. That makes the reset a planning assumption, not a cycle.
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