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The dollar sank to its lowest level in more than three years on Thursday
and the FTSE 100 closed at a record high as Donald Trump’s latest trade threats and the weakening economy appeared to bring forward interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
Foreign exchange traders sold the dollar in favour of the yen and the euro,
which both climbed by about 1% against the US currency to leave it almost 10% down on its value against a basket of currencies since the beginning of the …

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The built in calculator app on the iPhone can do all sorts of conversions.
Long-press the icon at bottom left and you get a pop-up menu. Slide the toggle on and the default $ to € currency converter appears. There’s a bazillion other currencies available too. But you can also choose among 15 other unit conversions, like weights, energy, force, pressure.

CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it's not building a fab in the Middle East (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/

TSMC expects record 2025 profit despite US tariffs, currency volatility
World's top chipmaker mulls price hike to mitigate $3bn forex impact

Epass: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Asynchronous Payment on Blockchain
Weijie Wang, Jinwen Liang, Chuan Zhang, Ximeng Liu, Liehuang Zhu, Song Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09387

Epass: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Asynchronous Payment on Blockchain
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) is a rapidly proliferating e-commerce model, offering consumers to get the product immediately and defer payments. Meanwhile, emerging blockchain technologies endow BNPL platforms with digital currency transactions, allowing BNPL platforms to integrate with digital wallets. However, the transparency of transactions causes critical privacy concerns because malicious participants may derive consumers' financial statuses from on-chain asynchronous payments. Furthermore, th…

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.GN/new/
[1/1]:
Hybrid Monetary Ecosystems: Integrating Stablecoins and Fiat in the Future of Currency Systems

Trade Networks and the Rise of a Global Currency
Tomoo Kikuchi, Lien Pham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22080 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505…

Trade Networks and the Rise of a Global Currency
We develop a model of strategic competition between global currencies. Issuers choose their commitment levels for currency internationalization, while users -- interconnected in a trade network -- choose their usage of each currency for trade settlement. Our theoretical findings highlight not only the advantage of the status-quo issuer in maintaining dominance, but also the conditions under which an emerging issuer can attract users, potentially leading to a multi-currency payment system. The n…

Did you know if you are outside your home country and purchase something using #PayPal in a foreign currency and then download your transactions in a CSV from PayPal you get the transactions in the foreign currency?
I couldn't figure out why I had all these strange charges...ends up it was when I was in #Sweden - for #Uber rides. 🥴
Not sure this is the wrong way to do it, but it certainly has made trying to put together my #taxes confusing. 😂

Can Artificial Intelligence Trade the Stock Market?
J\k{e}drzej Maskiewicz, Pawe{\l} Sakowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04658 https://

Can Artificial Intelligence Trade the Stock Market?
The paper explores the use of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in stock market trading, focusing on two algorithms: Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and compares them with Buy and Hold benchmark. It evaluates these algorithms across three currency pairs, the S&P 500 index and Bitcoin, on the daily data in the period of 2019-2023. The results demonstrate DRL's effectiveness in trading and its ability to manage risk by strategically avoiding trades in unfavorab…

I'm baffled that this guy is a respected analyst. Yeah, an infinite number of AI agents will spend their money on content from human creators, making those humans infinitely rich. I see no flaws in this model.

Hybrid Monetary Ecosystems: Integrating Stablecoins and Fiat in the Future of Currency Systems
Hongzhe Wen, Songbai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10997 htt…

Hybrid Monetary Ecosystems: Integrating Stablecoins and Fiat in the Future of Currency Systems
With market capitalization exceeding USD 200 billion as of early 2025, stablecoins have evolved from a crypto-focused innovation into a vital component of the global monetary structure. This paper identifies the characteristics of stablecoins from an analytical perspective and investigates the role of stablecoins in forming hybrid monetary ecosystems where public (fiat, CBDC) and private (USDC, USDT, DAI) monies coexist. Through econometric analysis with multiple models, we find that stablecoin…

EU-Kommission und EZB werden laut Insidern in Kürze das OK geben, dass Bulgarien per 1.1.2026 den Euro einführen kann.
Das Land wird damit das 21. Mitglied der Währungsunion.
#Euro #EU #EUpol #Bulgarien #EZB