LSE prepares to launch tokenised stocks in digital markets push

Partnership with Kraken owner is latest sign of UK’s drive to become crypto-asset trading hub

Japan’s bonds and yen under pressure after Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech

Currency weakens past ¥160 a dollar and yields rise to highest in three decades as investors raise bets on monetary tightening

Will financial innovation dethrone the dollar?

The evolution of a truly multi-polar currency market depends on governments’ willingness to embrace technology and fortify markets

Crypto groups spend record $640mn buying back their own tokens

Firms employ similar strategy to equity market repurchases in response to prolonged slump in digital assets sector

De-dollarisation may not be over

Recent pick-up in dollar’s share of global foreign exchange reserves does not amount to a trend reversal

Why 5% Treasuries aren’t crushing emerging markets

Owning EM bonds has not been so terrible in the past year

HMRC reports record capital gains tax haul after Reeves’ rate rise

Data shows £24.2bn in receipts for the 2024/25 tax year, an 89% increase on previous year

Bitcoin treasury companies shed $80bn in value as business model unwinds

Crypto hoarders have been selling tokens and reverting to former activities

Ministers tell Bank of England to boost innovation in digital currencies

Treasury gives central bank a new legal objective as part of effort to promote UK as hub for stablecoins

Bitcoin is great (for systemic theft of aid money)

Finally, a killer use case

The great re-equitisation and the dollar

Plus, weathernomics

Bitcoin and gold surge as Bessent’s intervention in bond market hits dollar

World’s biggest cryptocurrency registers best week in more than three years as investors pile into ‘debasement’ trades

Japanese inflation rises as central bank weighs rate increase

Bank of Japan under pressure to act on rates in September as yen weakens despite joint intervention

US long-term bonds slide as Bessent intervention fails to soothe investors

Yield on 30-year Treasuries rises despite move to ‘at least double’ purchases of securities

Big Brother Bessent is watching you

Yield curve control, US style

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