Executive Summary
With over $315 billion in daily trading volume, stablecoins have become the systemic plumbing of programmable finance. Yet, the Basel Committee (BIS) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) highlight a critical flaw: the lack of quantitative tools capable of measuring counterparty risk in real time. Traditional approaches rely on static snapshots (monthly attestations)…
On July 27-28, 2026, The Information and then Reuters confirmed the start of volume production of domestic Chinese deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography tools by Shanghai Aishengna Electronic Technology Group (a state-owned entity created in 2023, with a capital of approximately 7 billion CNY, integrating teams from Yuliangsheng/SiCarrier-Huawei and SMEE).
Target: approximately 5 machines…
Institutional and fundamental legal framework
Unlike many central banks, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has no autonomous decision-making power over foreign exchange intervention. This authority rests solely with the Minister of Finance under Japan's Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act. The BOJ acts only as a technical agent for the Ministry of Finance (MoF), with…
Hamza Lemssouguer's Arini Capital fund, launched in 2022 with $1.3 billion and reaching $20 billion in assets under management, is highlighted for its focus on European distressed debt and high-yield credit refinancing for companies like Altice. Arini closed its flagship fund at $4 billion to maintain performance and is expanding into CLOs and private credit.…
RÉSUMÉ
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft et Oracle ont émis un total de 88 milliards de dollars en obligations de qualité investissement entre septembre et novembre 2025, selon Dealogic. Ce montant, qui dépasse largement les émissions des trois années précédentes (66 milliards de dollars), est principalement motivé par des investissements massifs dans l'infrastructure de l'IA, notamment…
1. Timmer compare la valorisation actuelle de l'essor de l'IA de Nvidia à son apogée internet en 1999-2000, montrant un P/E de Nvidia à 32 contre 90 pour Cisco, arguant que le marché est loin des extrêmes de la « saison stupide ».
2. Le graphique superpose les données du S&P 500 de 2022…
Analyse de marché