International financial institution that provides loans, grants, and policy advice to developing countries to reduce poverty and support economic development.
Borderless.xyz says a $200 stablecoin-funded remittance costs a median $2 against $12.72 on the World Bank's average, an 84% saving. Payout completion runs from 73% in Costa Rica to 98.6% in Mexico, so a sender comparing fees also has to compare whether the money arrives.
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IMF and World Bank released the Bangkok Blueprint against cyber-enabled fraud on Wednesday. It is not formal policy guidance from either institution. Thai Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas said such fraud costs the world economy around $1 trillion a year.
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Malaysia's GDP grew 6.0% in the second quarter, up from 4.6%, as electrical and electronics net exports rose 168.5%, Crypto Briefing reported. Full-year forecasts of 5.1% (World Bank) and 5.2% (IMF) imply a second half near 4.5% to 4.7% after a 5.7% first half.
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Larry Elliott writes in the Guardian that inventories, AI spending and cheap Chinese exports are holding off a global crisis, each at a cost. The column does not date the reckoning, so planners have to treat timing as unknown while the costs are already visible.
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Chainalysis says remittance-sized crypto transfers from Canada to India, China and the Philippines rose 141% to $2.36 billion in the year to June 2026. The data measure that growth but not what it took from banks and wire services.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said in Bangkok that growth cannot cut more than $40 trillion in US debt fast enough and that deficits must come down. Rates are already at multidecade highs, the Associated Press reported, so costlier capital is the safer planning assumption until budgets tighten.
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Foreign secretary Ed Miliband will ask the World Bank and other development banks to use their balance sheets to refinance developing-country debt. Debt Justice welcomed the focus but says private lenders must share the cost.
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IMF fiscal chief Rodrigo Valdes says public debt is poised to hit 100% of GDP, the highest since World War Two, as G7 10-year yields climbed over 1 point. Nearly 30% of G7 and Spanish debt matures within a year. Investors should keep borrowing costs and fiscal risk in their planning.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI infrastructure spending is holding global growth near 3%, after the fund raised its 2026 forecast to 3.1%. She also warned that AI could affect about 40% of jobs, a count of exposed roles and not a forecast of cuts.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI will eventually augment, downgrade or eliminate about 40% of jobs worldwide, with graduates first in line. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who co-chairs the World Bank's Jobs Council, wants crisis-era hiring aid made permanent.
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IMF's Global Financial Stability Report names an AI market correction and severe cyber incidents as plausible near-term triggers of turmoil. The correction risk rests on AI investment and profits disappointing, an assumption a company can test against its own plans.
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IMF says the emergency oil stocks that helped contain the US-Iran war's price shock are now depleted. Governments with high debt and deficits have little capacity to shield consumers from another jump, the fund warned.
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Harneys and dropRWA plan to issue tokenized catastrophe bonds from Bermuda in early 2027, into a market that held $65.6 billion in June. Each token would represent legal ownership, and securities and insurance rules still apply.
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UNDP's No Time to Recover report says governments shielding up to 130 million of the world's poorest from high oil prices are running out of money. With conditions expected to worsen into spring, the cost of $100 oil is moving from state budgets onto households.
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FAO's September food price index rose to 136.0, its highest since November 2022, while its cereal index climbed 17.2% from a year earlier. With Gulf urea supply cut and El Nino's harvest boost due to fade, the larger cost risk sits with next year's planting.
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Samsung will build USDC transfers into Samsung Wallet on 82 million US Galaxy phones from late October. Whether that reach becomes a cheap way to send money home depends on what Samsung charges to pay into foreign bank accounts.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged governments to stop delaying debt cuts and raise borrowing costs as needed before 191 members meet in Bangkok. Her prescription points companies toward higher rates, while her call to regulate AI stayed at the level of principle.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI could add up to half a point a year to world growth, with investment set to match or exceed the railroads' share of GDP. The same boom lifts inflation and competes with governments for bond money, so economies outside the AI supply chain risk the higher rates without the growth.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said an energy shock, record public debt and the AI boom threaten global growth, with Brent crude back above $100. For 2027 plans, the firmer signal is expensive money: US and UK government yields are above 5% while UK household spending holds up.
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Bangkok got roughly 300 mm of rain in 48 hours from a stalled low-pressure system, swamping drains designed for short tropical downpours. Warmer air is expected to put more water into storms like this one, but nobody yet knows whether warming makes them stall more often.
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