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2026-11-10 – Antoine Martin: The Swiss National Bank, its monetary policy and the Swiss economy
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Piero Cipollone: Cash and the digital euro: two sides of the same coin
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Morgan Stanley Eyes Tokenisation With Vinyl Equity Deal
Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy Vinyl Equity, a digital transfer agent registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A transfer agent keeps the official record…
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Coinbase Secures Final OCC Approval for Its National Trust Company
Coinbase has secured final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter its new federally regulated trust company. Named Coinbase National Trust Company, this entity lets the exchange…
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Affirm Acquires Ratepay as Nexi Focuses on Core Activities
Affirm, a US-based payment network, will acquire Ratepay from Milan-based digital payments group Nexi. Following the change of ownership, Ratepay aims to offer a complete range of buy now, pay later (BNPL) products…
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Industry Stakeholders Predict Hybrid Model for Tokenization in Capital Markets
Tokenized financial markets are unlikely to become fully on-chain in the foreseeable future. Instead, a selective approach will take shape, where blockchain is used for functions that benefit from decentralization…
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October 2026
SNB News
2026-10-07 – Portale di dati – FMI NSDD Plus, 7 octobre 2026 (FR/DE/EN)
SNB News
ES – 2026-10-07 – William Boye and Thomas Moser: A secure network for financial infrastructure: SCION and the Secure Swiss Finance Network (SSFN)
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2026-10-06 – Antoine Martin: Monetary policy implementation in an environment with abundant reserves
BIS - FSI Publications Banking Regulation
Chasing El Dorado: gold under shifting geopolitical and financial conditions
This paper analyses the state-dependent effects of geopolitical risks on gold prices (i.e. the safe-haven role of gold), conditional on financial conditions. Geopolitical risks are often associated with tighter…
SNB News
2026-10-05 – Portale di dati – Données importantes de politique monétaire, 5 octobre 2026 (FR/DE/EN)
BIS - Press Releases Banking Regulation
Basel III applicable in almost all member jurisdictions by 2027
Three quarters of the Basel Committee’s 27 member jurisdictions have now published regulations implementing the full set of Basel III standards. Almost all member jurisdictions have publicly announced that banks must…