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Singapore's financial regulator is proposing strict new rules for stablecoin issuers, requiring one hundred percent reserves and banning the payment of yields to holders. The framework aligns with approaches being developed in the United States and the European Union, and notably opens a path for foreign-issued stablecoins to gain official recognition in Singapore.
Across the Pacific, China's memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies has begun what's called risk production of HBM three E memory — the high-bandwidth chips critical to AI hardware. The company remains a generation behind the industry leaders, who are already mass producing HBM four, but analysts say reaching this milestone signals how quickly China is closing the gap, with mass production potentially arriving by two thousand twenty seven.
And the Bank of England's Governor Andrew Bailey is raising alarms about artificial intelligence and financial stability. In a letter to G twenty finance ministers, Bailey warned that frontier AI models are growing more capable of exploiting security vulnerabilities, and that heavily concentrated investments in AI infrastructure could trigger a dangerous market correction if things go wrong.
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