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View More NewsSouth Korea’s financial regulator folded token securities infrastructure into a broader overhaul of the country’s capital markets, alongside plans for faster settlement, longer trading hours and greater use of artificial intelligence.On Tuesday, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) said it had launched a capital market infrastructure review meeting to coordinate reforms across government agencies and market operators. According to the FSC, plans for token securities will be further discussed separately through a public-private council before being linked to the wider initiative. The initiative includes a roadmap for shortening the securities settlement cycle, expected by October, and a Korea Securities Depository (KSD) system…
Social Security doesn’t have enough money to pay everything that has been promised, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) has a plan to fix that: Making workers pay more in taxes without asking older Americans to give up any of their benefits. Warren has been pushing this idea for a few months now, under the guise of defending Social Security against the Trump administration, which she claims is “threatening the benefits that millions of Americans have paid into their entire working lives.” In reality, the threat to Social Security is the program’s own math. When it reaches insolvency in 2032, the…
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The latest and most fearsome round of fighting in the long shadow war with the Islamic Republic of Iran is not ending well for the United States and Israel. The ceasefire agreement signed by President Trump in Versailles on 17 June is not a full peace treaty, but Iran’s leaders have nonetheless greeted it as an unalloyed triumph. They had, they boasted, “through the imposition of their divine and iron will upon the humiliated American and Zionist enemies, demonstrated with strength that the enemy has no path other than accepting defeat and surrender.”Though salient details of the “memorandum of understanding”…
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Michelle Bond, the wife of former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame, who is serving a 7.5-year prison sentence after reaching a plea agreement…
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Bitcoin could be absent from the world’s top five assets by market cap until 2036, despite an estimate seeing the BTC bear market being…
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This is part of 1776 All-Stars, a series about Reason’s favorite American Founders. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson I do not know my favorite Founder’s…
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Today’s guest is Matt Welch, editor at large at Reason and co-host of The Fifth Column podcast. Welch joins Nick Gillespie for a look…
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Jack Dorsey’s financial services firm Block rolled out a new suite of AI-native tools on Wednesday, which it says can execute around 15% of…