Category: Currency and Forex
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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…
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USD Mint: Clearing the Confusion on Government Authorization and Digital Dollars
In recent months, some commentators have circulated claims that USD Mint is a government-authorized provider of a global digital U.S. dollar. This statement is misleading at best and false at worst. To set the record straight, USD Mint is not authorized by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Mint, nor the Federal Reserve…
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Ledger CTO Warns of Shocking NPM Attacks Targeting Crypto Users
A chilling warning from the CTO of Ledger has sent shockwaves through the crypto community. According to recent reports, a large-scale supply chain attack is underway, leveraging the Node Package Manager (NPM) ecosystem that underpins vast portions of the global web. A Billion Downloads, A Billion Risks Here’s what’s happening: The payload is insidious. It…
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Tether Eyes the Gold Supply Chain: From Vaults to Mines
In a move that has surprised both the cryptocurrency and gold industries, Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin (USDT), has begun holding discussions with mining and investment groups about investing across the entire gold supply chain. According to four people familiar with the recent talks, this potential strategy would encompass mining, refining, trading,…