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Japan’s central bank is running blockchain settlement experiments and advancing tokenized central bank money initiatives ahead of a 2026 decision on issuing a digital yen.

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Yet many banks still struggle to move beyond pilots. In fact, A recent McKinsey report shows that over 70% of AI initiatives fail to scale due to weak planning and poor system alignment. And your ...

The Daily News Sentiment Index is a high frequency measure of economic sentiment based on lexical analysis of economics-related news articles. The index is described in Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof, and ...

Building more livable cities is an essential step toward achieving the World Bank mission of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. Today, more than half of the world’s ...