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Swiss National Bank exploring ways to tokenise financial assets

Global Banking & Finance

Swiss National Bank exploring ways to tokenise financial assets ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank is examining the best way that financial assets can be digitally tokenised as a way of making payments more secure and efficient, Chairman Thomas Jordan said on Monday.

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Cryptocurrency Comes of Age as a Mainstream Financial Asset

Global Banking & Finance

Despite the high ROI of many alternative assets in the crypto space, the conservative criticism of cryptocurrency persists in many financial circles. Cryptocurrency is enjoying another bumper year, with Bitcoin more than doubling in value over the past four quarters and several other cryptos including Solana exceeding this performance.

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Mediobanca shares slide 8% following revenue miss, NII guidance lowered

Global Banking & Finance

For the current fiscal year, the bank now sees flat net interest income (NII) as it prioritizes growing total financial assets by attracting […]

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Mediobanca shares slide 7% following revenue miss

Global Banking & Finance

For the current fiscal year, the bank now sees flat net interest income (NII) as it prioritizes growing total financial assets by attracting deposits, taking advantage […]

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The tough task facing the Australian securities regulator

Bronte Capital

Bluntly - this is the biggest pool of disengaged money on the planet - with large amounts of financial assets held by people of middling to no financial sophistication. Financial institutions in Australia have been fattened on fees from these collected savings. He got some of it diverted to a Lichtenstein bank account.

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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Mergers and Inquisitions

But a few related areas, such as commodity desks at banks, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), and physical commodity trading shops could put up a good fight for that “most cyclical” title. Commodity trading desks within sales & trading at the large banks. Start in trading and pivot into commodities.

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Digital assets and traditional finance: Can two parallel lanes converge?

The TRADE

As the introduction of digital assets become increasingly common, their influence on traditional finance is becoming more notable, blurring the line between two seemingly separate, and arguably parallel, financial instruments.

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