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The gold repatriation trend continues, now with a new spin that the UK can’t be trusted to hold the gold.

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Also relevant here for the first part of the interview.


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The following article is about the programme of debt monetisation and its effects on the economy.


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Another country’s central bank - this time Poland - is repatriating gold reserves:


From: https://www.rt.com/business/474325-poland-repatriates-gold-london/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

This is an interesting article in that it covers a change in both sentiment and policy about the importance of gold holdings for central banks.

Admittedly, it is written by a gold proponent but -...

This is more for reference than an update. These are papers from a recent conference on how central banks can address and incorporate blockchain technologies.


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The growth of Fintech continues. Google wants to be a bank. So they aim to control both information and money (which in some ways is a kind of information).


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This video is of a discussion held at the Institute of International Finance (IFF) annual meeting in Washington D.C. in October 2019.

The participants are Tim Adams, President and Chief Executive...

The UK’s Financial Times tweeted:

“Benoît Cœuré will head a new unit of the Bank for International Settlements charged with finding public alternatives to private digital currencies such as...

Central bank of Tunisia launches blockchain based digital currency. The currency was developed by a Russian company, Universa (https://universablockchain.com/):


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Italian court finds some bankers guilty:

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The ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded their outlook on some Indian institutions. I do think ratings agencies are political so this may not be entirely about financial and economic prospects. It...

The digital payments sector continues to expand. China expects to play this game too:

And some parties in Germany seem to be flying a “weather balloon” to test response to the idea of a centralised European deposit insurance scheme:


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Hungary’s central bank seems to signalling an exit of the eurozone:

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I do not have access to the Financial Time article but here is a comment on that article:


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One view of the different banks involved in the bullion market:

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China planning to be the first state to issue sovereign digital currency:

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An alternative to SWIFT emerges:


From: https://www.rt.com/business/472016-russia-india-china-swift/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

This is a rather stark graph showing rising levels of debt.

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President Xi of China made some interesting statements about Blockchain and digital currency on Thursday (24 October 2019) at the 18th collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central...