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Tokenised money is a key missing component of Australia’s emerging digital-market infrastructure. But the relevant question is not whether Australian dollar value exists on-chain; it is which instruments become accepted for which purposes, who controls them, and whether value can move between them rather than remaining within separate institutional perimeters. Debate around tokenisation is shifting from whether it can work to how tokenised markets will function in practice – and, crucially, who will coordinate them and shoulder the costs of being first, according to BlockchainAPAC’s National Dialogue 2026 report. At the centre of the discussion are money market funds and…

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Editorial Thaïs Brouck Business journalist at Jeune Afrique, specialised in macroeconomics. See more unfinished project Despite institutional progress, the world’s largest free trade area is not delivering the results expected of it. Who is responsible? African heads of state and government during the AU summit dedicated to the creation of the AfCFTA, in Kigali, 21 March 2018. © AFP Published on September 07, 2026 at 11:26 am (GMT +1) It was meant to transform Africa’s economic landscape and drive its industrialisation. Its rollout was supposed to allow the continent to assert its financial and commercial independence in the face of…

TBC Capital has published its latest Macroeconomic Update, noting that its base-case scenario remains broadly unchanged, although the factors driving risks in both directions have become more pronounced. After a roughly one-month pause, the conflict in the Middle East escalated again in recent days, triggering renewed volatility across global commodity markets. As highlighted in TBC Capital’s previous update, the primary impact of the escalation on Georgia’s economy is expected to be felt through inflation rather than economic growth. Against this backdrop, Brent crude oil prices reached USD 97 per barrel on September 3, the highest level since July. At the…

By Frank Shostak Key Takeaways: Cash-abolition advocates say paper feeds the shadow economy, tax evasion, and bank-run instability, and that most payments can be electronic. The author answers from Mises and Rothbard: money is a commodity that won the market as the most saleable good—not a token, unit of account, or “claim on society.” It had to have a prior use-value before it could price other goods. Gold won historically; today’s stock is notes, coin, and bank demand deposits. Storing cash in a bank does not change the total; a loan only moves existing money. Electronic transfers and cards are ways of moving money,…

The programming world isn’t just about Rust or TypeScript, and huge swaths of the economy rely on systems and technologies we rarely think about. These represent an opportunity, and dying languages that carry a lot of weight may offer the best of them. If niche technologies spark your interest, then this one’s for you. A legacy language is one that was left behind. However, in reality, such languages never really go away. COBOL was invented in an era when smoking cigarettes was considered perfectly healthy, yet it still underpins most of the world’s finances. Learning one means picking up tools…

Nigeria’s Economic Management Team (EMT) has approved the establishment of an inter-agency committee to harmonise the macroeconomic assumptions used by government agencies in budgeting and economic planning. The committee will align key projections including crude oil prices and production volumes, exchange rates, inflation and non-oil revenue across fiscal and monetary…… Nigeria’s Economic Management Team (EMT) has approved the establishment of an inter-agency committee to harmonise the macroeconomic assumptions used by government agencies in budgeting and economic planning. The committee will align key projections including crude oil prices and production volumes, exchange rates, inflation and non-oil revenue across fiscal and monetary…

What’s happening on the desks Investors looking beyond packed AI trades in Korea and Japan are gravitating to Chinese equity derivatives. Trading teams at firms from Barclays Plc to UBS Group AG say client appetite for bullish options and swap contracts linked to China’s CSI indexes has been climbing. On Aug. 30, UBS’s sales and trading desk flagged that the biggest weekly derivatives activity in Asia came from optimistic bets on these benchmarks, noting several large inquiries for long swaps focused on the CSI 300 and CSI 500, alongside upside option structures. At Barclays, the desk is getting more requests…

HONG KONG — Markets around the world have been jolted by fears that slowing growth and deflationary pressures in Europe, Japan and other major economies could derail the United States. But the health of China, for decades an engine of growth, has emerged as one of the most significant wild cards in the global economy.It is hard to be certain just exactly how the Chinese economy is faring, given mixed signals in the data.Chinese inflation is at its weakest levels in nearly five years. Commodity prices are plunging. New home sales are declining. Foreign investment is contracting.The overall economy, though,…