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Seoul's Kospi closed down 7.57% after a circuit breaker, as chipmakers sold off on U.S. inflation data. BlackRock's Fink says halting data centers means recession. HSBC's Roberts says lenders want higher returns first.
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HSBC's survey of 100 UK law firms finds 60% citing clients bringing work in-house and almost three-quarters citing technology as a disruptor. The figures record perception, and the pricing question comes from one chief executive.
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Counterpoint Research estimates global smartphone shipments fell about 20% year on year in the third quarter, the weakest since 2012. Retail prices rose roughly 20% this year as makers passed higher memory costs to buyers, Korea JoongAng Daily reported.
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Princeton Digital Group is seeking up to $1.2 billion through five banks for a 198.8MW Johor campus and to refinance debt, Bloomberg reported. With Indonesia's $856 million, a full-size loan would bring it to about $2.06 billion of a $5 billion debt target.
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Dollar index slid 0.25% to 102.29 on Tuesday, just under its 18-month high, as traders bet Middle East tension stays contained before the midterms. Wednesday's CPI tests a Fed priced at an 80% hold this month and 75bp of tightening by late 2027.
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HSBC is preparing to cut about half of the managers and specialists in its UK wealth unit and close to 70% of its advisers, the FT reported. The bank has not confirmed the figures, and the cuts would partly reverse an earlier plan to hire more UK advisers and grow assets under management.
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HSBC and Ant Digital tested AI agents making micropayments, typically under $2, in tokenized HSBC deposits settled in real time on a blockchain testnet. HSBC ran settlement and the risk checks itself, so every payment an agent made passed a bank control and moved as a bank deposit.
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The TUC says cutting the bank surcharge from 8% to 3% in 2023 cost the UK £6bn over three years. It wants a higher rate at the 28 October budget, so bank finance teams have a scenario to price while the Treasury has not stated its intentions.
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Britain's FCA has banned former HSBC banker Joseph Molloy from regulated finance over a £5,911 train-fare fraud. The case shows that a dishonesty conviction from a banker's own commute, worth a few thousand pounds, is enough to fail the test that decides who may work in regulated finance.
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Britain's Treasury named six banks, among them Barclays, HSBC and Morgan Stanley, to underwrite DIGIT, its first digitally native gilt, due by end-Q1 2027. The choice settles who sells sovereign debt onchain well before the bond's yield can show what onchain settlement costs.
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Koreans buying yen are paying the least in about 18 years, as 100 yen fell into the mid-800s of won this week from about 950 in early summer. Most of the drop is the won's chip-export rally against the dollar, Korea Times figures show, so the saving depends on that boom lasting.
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NatWest is pulling back from US and European government bond markets, Bloomberg reported. How much dealer capacity leaves is unclear, because the 79.5 billion pounds of mostly sovereign bonds its markets arm holds is a liquidity buffer.
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ActionAble's 2026 Disability Index found 88 FTSE 100 companies publish no figure for the share of their staff who are disabled. Mandatory disability pay gap reporting is promised but has no date, and those 88 would begin it with no published baseline.
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South Korea's Supreme Court upheld HSBC Hong Kong's acquittal on 15.8 billion won of alleged naked short sales, the country's first such criminal case. Its holding that an unexecuted sell order is not the offence gives the next prosecution a stricter test to meet.
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CoinShares' survey of 2,230 investors with $500,000 or more found just 9% to 19% of crypto holders invest mainly as a hedge. Advisers should prepare for requests argued on returns and sized against an average allocation that HSBC and Ric Edelman both put lower.
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Taurus co-founder Lamine Brahimi says banks must build three systems of their own to join Swift's tokenized-deposit ledger, live so far with four banks. Swift coordinates the transfers while each bank pays for its own stack, and Taurus sells all three layers on one platform.
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Hong Kong will table a bill by end-2026 creating four SFC crypto licences, covering dealing, custody, advisory and management, with no grandfathering. For firms holding neither an SFC nor an HKMA licence, the date that decides their business is commencement, and it has not been set.
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Christopher Hui gave Hong Kong lawmakers an offshore-yuan agenda led by PBoC swap talks while the city's two licensed stablecoin issuers lack a trading venue. Both issue Hong Kong-dollar coins, and the licensing bill for virtual-asset trading is promised only for later this year.
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Bosses of Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and three other lenders make their tax case to John Healey on Tuesday, just over four weeks before his first Budget. Signals from his Treasury leave lenders that wanted the 3% surcharge phased out defending against a rise.
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Polymarket has taken $77,507 in positions on whether the world's biggest banks, HSBC and Lloyds among them, fail by year-end. For British lenders the exposure is how fast that price could travel on social media during a period of stress.
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