G7 finance ministers and central bank governors approved tabletop exercises simulating AI-driven cyberattacks, Japan's Satsuki Katayama said in Bangkok. No start date or participant list has been published, so any test of banks is still undated.
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- Builder 7%
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- Operator 44%
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- Investor 49%
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- Hype gap+10
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- Confidence65
South Korea and Japan extended their dollar-based $10 billion swap line by three years to November 2029, at one-seventh of the $70 billion it reached in 2011. At that size the line covers a fraction of what it once did, so its value rests on the signal it sends.
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- Operator 45%
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- Evidence80
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Japan's near-record retail bond sales equal 0.66% of households' cash and deposits
Japan's Ministry of Finance sold 7.27 trillion yen of retail government bonds in nine months, 291 billion yen short of the record set in 2007. The record looks all but certain, but the sums are small next to household cash and do little for the yields Tokyo pays.
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- Evidence50
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
Japan's megabanks test stablecoin payouts on export receivables in the FSA's fourth pilot
Japan's FSA cleared a fourth stablecoin pilot, letting four banks, TradeWaltz and NTT Data pay exporters for receivables in a bank-issued coin. Only the exporter's sale of the receivable to its bank is in scope, so collection from the importer stays on letters of credit and paper.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives50
- Confidence55
Bessent answered a run at 5% with $5.2 billion of buybacks
Investors had held US equities near records on the view that Bessent was coordinating Trump's policy sensibly. His answer to a 10-year yield testing 5% was a buyback he announced at $6 billion and executed at about $5.2 billion.
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Japan's bond dealers refuse the dip at a 3% ten-year yield
The 10-year JGB touched 3.027% before slipping back into the 2.9% range, while 40-year paper trades near 93 yen per 100 of face and insurers are asking their asset managers how to limit valuation losses.
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- Evidence46
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives66
- Confidence52
Japan sent 2.53tn yen abroad in one week, and equities took the bigger half
Ministry of Finance flow data show a bid under global stocks and bonds funded by yen carry, and repriced in July by one minister's suggestion about GPIF.
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- Evidence24
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives46
- Confidence28