Category: Currency and Forex
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Franklin Templeton Just Declared XRP the Foundation of Global Finance
The silence just broke. Not from an influencer.Not from a crypto maxi.Not from rumor mills, Telegram groups, or speculative YouTubers. But from Franklin Templeton—the 77-year-old, blue-blood asset-management dynasty with $1.5 trillion under management—stepping onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with a brand-new XRP ETF (ticker: XRPZ) and saying the quiet part out…
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Bitcoin’s 2025 Meltdown: From $126,000 Euphoria to a Full-Blown Bear Market
Bitcoin has entered one of its steepest and most unexpected downturns since the early 2020s. After hitting an all-time high near $126,000 in early October 2025, the world’s largest digital asset has crashed to the $84,000 range, erasing all of its year-to-date gains and plunging into definitive bear-market territory. For a market that spent the…
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ISO 20022, XRP, and the Future of Global Payments: Efficiency, Transparency, and a Massive Upside Story
The global financial system is undergoing a once-in-a-generation transformation — and it’s happening quietly in the background of banks, central banks, and payment networks worldwide. The shift to ISO 20022, the universal financial messaging standard for international transactions, is creating a new era of efficiency, transparency, interoperability, and regulatory compliance across the world’s payment rails.…
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Buenos Aires: The Dollar Republic
In the cafes of Recoleta, the clatter of cups competes with the rustle of paper — not pesos, but dollars. The American kind. Crisp, green, and hoarded like relics of faith. In this country, where inflation has eaten through generations of savings, the people have turned to the one currency they trust — the U.S.…
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Why the Ripple / Mastercard Tie-up Matters
(And why offshore investors and treasury managers should pay attention) The headline: Mastercard has publicly acknowledged a partnership with Ripple Labs in the context of stablecoins and payments infrastructure. (AInvest) While the exact product details are still emerging, when you map this onto Ripple’s rollout of RLUSD — a dollar-pegged stablecoin built for enterprise &…
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BNB & the New Chapter for Binance: What Investors Should Know
As of October 23 2025, the native token of the Binance Holdings Ltd. ecosystem—BNB—is trading at around US $1,120 per token (or close to that level), with a market-capitalisation in the ballpark of US $155 billion and a 24-hour trading volume of over US $5.5 billion. This puts BNB comfortably among the larger crypto-assets in terms of…
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Inside Bank Server-to-Bank Server (S2S) Transactions: The Future of Off-Ledger Finance
In the evolving landscape of structured finance and sovereign-grade instruments, Bank Server-to-Bank Server (S2S) services represent a discreet yet powerful channel for executing institutional transactions. Unlike traditional SWIFT-based transfers, these exchanges occur directly between the secured IT environments of participating banks, ensuring absolute confidentiality, regulatory oversight, and compliance with central bank mandates. Exclusive S2S Transaction…
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The Hottest Trends in Crypto: Volatility, AI Tokens, Institutional Adoption, and the DeFi Revolution
The cryptocurrency market has always been a theater of extremes, but in recent weeks it’s been particularly electric. Bitcoin and major altcoins have seen dramatic price swings—some triggered by regulatory developments, others by sheer speculative energy. Meanwhile, a new breed of tokens tied to artificial intelligence is stealing the spotlight, and institutional players are quietly…
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USD Pallet Services: The Gekko Playbook for High-Volume Cash Logistics in a Post-Euro World
You think you’ve seen liquidity? Kid, you haven’t even scratched the surface. We’re entering the most explosive monetary realignment in history—and it’s not happening in a boardroom. It’s happening in bunkers, vaults, and coded storage units filled with USD Pallets. Quiet. Off-ledger. Waiting. And now… they’re coming online. Let me walk you through the real…