FinTech Mergers and Acquisitions in India: Rethinking Competition and Regulatory Oversight in the Age of AI
Amazon executed a $200M acquisition of BNPL lender Axio in early 2025 to expand into Indian digital lending.
US Reports & Market Data (2026)
Key number
15-20% %
Valuation premium from unsubstantiated AI claims. OpenAlex (recherche mondiale) p.1
Key number
roughly $280 billion USD
Global Stablecoin Market Capitalization. OpenAlex (recherche mondiale) p.1
34 documents
AI Washing as the New Corporate Misrepresentation
A textual analysis of more than 5,000 U.S. SEC filings from 2020 to 2025 indicates that AI washing may satisfy Rule 10b-5 materiality and scienter requirements when corporate representations diverge from operational reality.
Limited Capital? Explaining Transatlantic Divergences in Artificial Intelligence Startup Financing
In the Post-period, AI accounts for around 60% of VC investment volume in the US, compared to roughly 31% in Europe.
Strategic Analysis of Global Trade Settlement, Sanctions Enforcement, Alternative Sovereign Rails, and On-Chain Liquidity Infrastructure
Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) daily usage was reported at about $60 billion compared to about $1,800 billion a day for CHIPS, with about 80 percent of CIPS payments still using Swift messaging.
Money Laundering - The Economic Impact and Its Implications
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit received 17,345 STR/SAR reports in FY2023–24, consisting of 11,736 STRs and 5,609 SARs.
Are the Hedges of Funds Green?
The sample hedge funds report an average monthly AUM of $396.773 million, a average monthly rate of return of 0.564%, and a monthly 7-factor alpha of 0.144%.
Stablecoin Development Pathways: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Logic and Market Landscape in China and the United States
By mid-2026, the aggregate global stablecoin market capitalization reached roughly $280 billion, with dollar-pegged instruments comprising over 92% of circulating supply.
Stablecoin Depegging, Financial Intermediary Balance Sheet Constraints, and Liquidity in the U.S. Traditional Money Market
By end-2025, the global stablecoin market grew from approximately $25 billion in 2020 to over $300 billion.
Deep-π*: A Neural Network Estimate of Trend Inflation
Deep-π* models trend inflation by mapping 122 macroeconomic indicators through neural networks into trend innovations, eliminating latent random-walk shocks and enabling exact Shapley attribution.
Efficiency without Compulsion: Economic Trade-offs in the Transition to a Cashless Society
The document establishes a distinction between voluntary payment digitalisation and forced cashlessness, evaluating welfare trade-offs across financial inclusion, privacy, and system resilience.
Debt maturity and government spending multipliers
Empirical analysis of post-war US data demonstrates that government spending shocks financed with short-term debt yield significantly higher output multipliers than those financed with long-term debt, typically exceeding unity under short-term financing.
Technology, Regulation, and the Divergent Trajectories of Retail and Cross-Border Central Bank Digital Currency
A Scopus bibliometric search conducted on 8 October 2026 retrieved 1,418 records, from which 1,045 were retained for critical analysis.
Currency Internationalization and International Financial Centers: Historical Logic, Evolutionary Mechanisms, and Implications for China
In May 2022, the International Monetary Fund increased the RMB's weight in the Special Drawing Rights basket from 10.92% to 12.28%.
The Asymmetric Attack Surface of Fiat Substitutes: A Measurement Framework and Owner-Bound Offline Custody Architecture
In 2019, Federal Bureau of Investigation data recorded USD 1.424 billion in reported stolen currency and USD 36.981 million recovered relative to USD 1.7598 trillion of U.S. currency in circulation.
The Jurisdiction of Par: Juridical Singleness and the Legal Identity of Stablecoins
Expanding access to Tether's arbitrage mechanism reduced the absolute size of peg deviations by approximately one half.
Decorrelating the Advice Layer: A Calibrated Fragility Metric and Tested Mitigations for Synchronized Liquidation in Agentic Wealth Management
In a March 2026 survey of 938 U.S. investors, 62% reported using AI tools for investment decisions, 22% used them to assist portfolio decisions, and 24% named "market herding" as a concern.
Same Person, Different Advice: Auditing LLM Financial Advice with Repeated Risk-Tolerance Responses
Across 800 real household profiles where only the risk answer changed, seven large language models shifted recommended stock allocations by 10 to 16 percentage points on average.
AI Use and Risk Disclosure by Investment Advisers
Researchers drew a stratified random sample of 400 SEC-registered investment advisers from a population frame of 16,223 active firms.
G20 Implementation Monitoring Review: 2026 Report
The IMR review working group was established in 2024 to evaluate the implementation status of international financial reforms and recommend improvements to monitoring.
Thin Evidence, Thick Priors: How Language Models Substitute Identity for Missing Financial Facts
Across 96,600 prompts to Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, the average identity swing in recommended equity allocation rises from 4.78 percentage points at full disclosure to 10.34 percentage points when no financial facts are supplied.
Blockchain Payments in Focus: From Experimentation to Implementation
Corporate stablecoin adoption live in production doubled from 9% in 2025 to 18% in 2026.
EIF Equity Survey Q3 2026
The EIF Equity Survey Q3 2026 collected market insights from 682 VC and PE mid-market fund managers across Europe.
Monetary Scoreboard Dublin
The aggregate monetary base of OECD countries increased from $2.5 trillion in 2000 to a peak of $25 trillion in March 2022.
Regulatory Update Dublin - September 2026
Stock markets remained calm after the start of the conflict in Iran on February 28, 2026, with the S&P 500 gaining a maximum increase of 7% on May 10, 2026.
Macroeconomic Scoreboard Dublin
Between 2008 and 2025, real GDP in the Eurozone grew at an average annual rate of just 0.9%, resulting in a 16.9% cumulative increase, while the US economy grew by 40.5% over the same period.
EIF Equity Barometer Survey Q2 2026
Around 70% of respondents reported that the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East negatively affected their business during Q2.
Global IPO Trends: How IPO Candidates Can Navigate Uncertain and Selective Markets
Industrials led global sector distribution in Q1 2026, accounting for 61 IPOs and $14b in proceeds.
Global Family Office Report 2026
The report presents findings from 307 family offices across more than 30 markets worldwide, with an average net worth of USD 2.7 billion.
Banking Transformation: The New Agenda
Only 24% of surveyed banks report being highly successful in achieving their cost reduction goals.
Swiss Venture Capital Fund Return Study 2025
Swiss VC funds allocate an average of 30% of invested capital and 50% of their total number of investments to Swiss start-ups.