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Read the week wrap-up →The Financial Stability Board’s 2026 programme brings several system-wide policy streams toward a concentrated October delivery point, testing whether global coordination can keep pace with artificial intelligence, digital assets, nonbank finance, cross-border payments and operational concentration.
Read analysis →A FTSE Russell–SGX paper on Japan opens a wider question: where is sustainable indexing gaining durable use in 2026?
Canada’s clarification of the Standing Liquidity Facility turns routine central-bank liquidity into an explicit part of the Lynx operating model, reducing stigma without relaxing collateral or participant controls.
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller’s Sibos speech frames agentic commerce as a payment-infrastructure problem: autonomous transactions will depend on portable identity, consent, liability, fraud and interoperability controls.
Record member-funded default resources at Euronext Clearing and ICE Clear Europe sharpen a structural question for European clearing: how quickly is mutualised member loss capacity growing relative to the capital committed by the CCPs themselves?
The Saudi Central Bank completed its mBridge proof of concept in May 2025 and then ceased formal participation. The previously undisclosed departure narrows the known membership of one of the most strategically significant experiments in cross-border central-bank digital-currency settlement.
Eurex has begun portfolio-margining foreign-exchange futures and options against eligible fixed-income derivatives, turning cross-product collateral efficiency from a design objective into a live clearing proposition.
The Financial Stability Board’s 2026 programme brings several system-wide policy streams toward a concentrated October delivery point. For financial market infrastructures, the strategic issue is whether global coordination can keep pace with artificial intelligence, digital assets, nonbank finance, cross-border payments and operational concentration.
Euronext’s 21 September 2026 settlement-model change provides a practical test of whether European post-trade consolidation can coexist with genuine central securities depository choice.
