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Schroders shareholders approved a £9.9bn sale to Nuveen in April. Shares remain listed. High Court sits 29 September. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #Schroders #Nuveen #MandA
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Disruption Banking is heading to Singapore, proud supporting media partner of the @sgfintechfest (@gftn_official), 18-20 November 2026. Readers save 20% with code SMP-DISC-20-DISRUPTIONBANKING. registration.gftn.co/sff2026… #disruptionbanking #SingaporeFintechFestival #SFF2026
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BlackRock's latest paper argues AI agents could become an overlooked source of demand for stablecoins as commerce turns machine-native. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #BlackRock #AI #Stablecoins
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Trump and Xi extended the US-China trade truce to 10 January. They bought stability, not a settlement. Why the clock stops there now matters. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #USChina #Trade #Stability
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AI data centre debt is spreading across banks, funds and markets. The test now is whether a setback forces a simultaneous pullback. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #AI #DataCentres #FinancialStability
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Kalshi denies wash trading as the CFTC reviews $5bn in clustered ether perpetual trades. Market integrity is now under fresh scrutiny. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #Kalshi #CFTC #Ether
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European gasoil is up 98% since the conflict began. Brent is up 36%. @PermutableAI says the shock has moved into real yields. #Permutable #Diesel #Rates disruptionbanking.com/2026/0…
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UK banks complete first live customer transactions in tokenised sterling deposits. Next stop is digital-asset settlement. @UKFtweets disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #GBTD #Tokenisation #UK
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The IMF Executive Board has approved principles for external partners. Mandate first. Independence stays with the Fund. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #IMF #Governance
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There is a natural synergy between AI and blockchain. We are not the only ones who think that:
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UK flags bridge and cross-chain risk as Hedera pushes interoperability for wholesale tokenisation. Industry, not regulators, will set the standards. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #Hedera #Tokenisation #UK
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Jane Street supplied $1.2bn of single-stock ETF swaps in Q2. Structured leverage is shifting outside the banks. Where does the risk sit? disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #JaneStreet #ETFs #Risk
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Prosecutors in Manhattan and at DOJ HQ are asking what Binance knew about Iran-linked trading. The exchange denies wrongdoing. Digital assets remain the leak. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #Binance #Sanctions #Iran
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Banks can now settle tokenised trades in central bank money. The Eurosystem's Pontes service is live. Will they book it? disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #Pontes #ECB #Tokenisation
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The EBC @ecb is preparing to invest its own funds in tokenised securities as Pontes opens settlement in central bank money. disruptionbanking.com/2026/0… #ECB #Pontes #Tokenisation
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The dollar on-chain has been split in two. A payment stablecoin moves. Under GENIUS the issuer cannot pay you for holding it. A “stable” in the allocator sense is a tokenized Treasury or money-market fund. It pays. It is a security #Stablecoins #Markets #DigitalAssets
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Japan is closed through Wednesday Seoul took the Kospi back through 7,000 Taiwan followed, though #TSMC was more cautious than the index Hong Kong and Shanghai rose without conviction The week’s real risk is the US-China meetings still ahead. #Markets #Asia
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Bitcoin is moving toward $82,000. That is not a new high. The October peak was $126,000. This is a rebound from the mid-$76,000s, into a level that has capped the range for weeks. The question is whether $82,000 holds, not the round number itself. #Bitcoin #Markets
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