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  • Mar 12, 2025

African payments system PAPSS plans to launch FX market platform this year

A pan-African payments infrastructure provider designed to facilitate trade on the continent is piloting an African currency market platform to boost commerce across borders in the region, its chief executive said. The Pan-African Payments and Settlement System (PAPSS), backed by 15 central banks on the continent, expects to add the platform later this year to complement its payments infrastructure that it says is currently integrated with 150 commercial banks. "The rates will be market driven, and our system is able to do a matching based on the rates offered by the different participants in our ecosystem," Mike Ogbalu, the CEO of PAPSS, told Reuters in an interview from Cairo.

  • Mar 12, 2025

Here's Why Cryptocurrencies Are Falling Despite Great News

It's hard to imagine a larger catalyst for cryptocurrencies than the one on March 6, when the White House issued an executive order that the U.S. would be forming both a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a national Digital Asset Stockpile. And yet in the wake of that ultra-bullish announcement, the prices of major cryptos including Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), Solana (CRYPTO: SOL), XRP (CRYPTO: XRP), and Cardano (CRYPTO: ADA) are all down, and substantially in most cases. Under the plan for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and the Digital Asset Stockpile, the government will not be buying any of the cryptocurrencies mentioned above, at least not in a way that involves spending from the nation's budget.

  • Mar 12, 2025

BOJ Is Said to See Good Reasons to Oppose Bond Market Action

(Bloomberg) -- Bank of Japan officials see several reasons against intervening in the bond market even after benchmark yields hit the highest level since 2008, according to people familiar with the matter, elaborating on the thinking behind recent remarks from Governor Kazuo Ueda.Most Read from BloombergTrump DEI Purge Hits Affordable Housing GroupsNYC Congestion Pricing Toll Gains Support Among City ResidentsElectric Construction Equipment Promises a Quiet RevolutionOpen Philanthropy Launches $

  • Mar 12, 2025

S&P 500, Nasdaq gain on cooling inflation; tariffs stoke slowdown fears

The benchmark S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose on Wednesday following data that showed slowing U.S. inflation, although concerns about the economic fallout of President Donald Trump's trade policies persisted. A Labor Department report showed consumer prices increased less than expected in February, but the improvement is likely to be temporary, given the backdrop of aggressive import tariffs. "This (CPI) is good news on the inflation front but obviously, with the imposition of tariffs, we still don't know where the real direction of inflation is at this time," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities.

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