Goldilocks’ Global Economic News 6-19-2024

Vietnam transitions to a cashless society

Visa’s Consumer Payment Attitudes Study 2023 indicates a significant rise in cashless payments, especially mobile wallet transactions, among Vietnam’s merchants.

A remarkable 79% of food and dining establishments and 74% of retailers and convenience stores now accept cashless payments.

Meanwhile, Visa’s Asia Pacific Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) Research 2023 further indicates that over 40% of SMBs in Vietnam now accept card payments, acknowledging their critical role in business operations. VOV World Twitter

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Issue Date: June 14, 2024 File Number: S7-13-22

Rulemaking: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, Shell Companies, and Projections Corporation Finance

Status: Final Rule: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, Shell Companies, and Projections; Correction

Today, the SEC registers the Final SPAC Rules. SPAC stands for Special Purpose Acquisition Company. SPAC is a company that raises money in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) to acquire a private company and take it public.

SPACs are also known as blank-check companies that provide money for startup companies preparing to offer new technologies (digital assets) on the QFS. The registering of this final rule will enable many technological advances to begin and be placed on the QFS.

Here comes liquidity for our new tokenized assets. SEC KPMG

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What is a SPAC? | Barrons

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Today the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded that newer IMF policy areas such as governance, social spending, digital money, climate change, and gender are leading to “serious” challenges, including overburdening staff. That’s because the expansion of activities beyond its traditional areas has happened with “limited resources and expertise”, including a more or less flat budget in real terms. However, the Board approved each of the expansion areas. Ledger Insights IEO IMF

👆 Do you see an urgency here?

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Putin arrives in North Korea, vows to boost cooperation and fight sanctions — Radio Free Asia

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This direct trade in local currencies was not only aimed at expanding bilateral trade to $100 billion under their free trade pact but also meant to develop a mechanism and ecosystem of directly dealing in two currencies. It was presumed to cover around 20-25 per cent of trade in local currency initially. However, the first deal that happened in Indian rupee-UAE dirham was an oil deal. | RFA

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Indonesia Stock Exchange Partners with Nasdaq to Upgrade Market Infrastructure

Sunandar, Director of Information Technology and Risk Management at IDX said: “With this trading system and technology infrastructure upgrade, we envisage becoming more competitive and staying attractive for both domestic and international investors. We believe this partnership will speed up the modernization advancement of the Indonesia capital market while supporting sustainable economic growth.” | Financial Post

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As we approach the elections, the markets are going to start showing their true colors. Bank mergers will increase as we leave behind the old Financial System and move into a new Digital Economy.

China and Russia have sold most of their US bonds. Now, we are witnessing the beginning stages of Japan doing the same. China and Japan have been huge Bond holders of the US debt instrument. And now, Japan wants to begin selling their bonds for Bitcoin. I bet you didn’t see that coming. 😂

Many of the US Banks are holding a significant amount of unrealized debts that will go against their banking net worth. Our Government has been attempting to swap out many of these maturing bonds with new bonds holding a higher rate of return.

This still doesn’t look like it is enough so far to balance the unrealized debt holdings our banking system currently has on their books.

This will create a downward pressure on the US dollar going forward. It will begin the process of leveling the playing field with other currencies around the world.

The banks that survive into the next economy will be those who are Basel 3 compliant. The road ahead will be bumpy as we activate new digital mechanisms through tokenized assets that will form a bridge to the new economy.

Europe is further along than the rest of the countries in the completion of their MICA regulations. Look for them to transition through the sale of their own bonds into digital assets and gold.

The US may not be far behind. And the BRICS system, let’s just say the Global South is about to rise. Bitcoin Magazine

“Japan’s Norinchukin Bank to sell US$63b of US, European govt bonds to stem losses” | The Edge Malaysia

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