Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Saturday Evening 5-18-24

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"Last week, in a letter to the council, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani called for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), which has been operational since 2003, to end by December 31, 2025."

Resolution 1770 (2007) was devised to give guidance for Iraq on internal protocols that would enable them to secure a safe environment for their people and become prosperous in the world around them.

The resolution was co-sponsored by: * United Kingdom * United States * Italy * Slovakia

There will be a meeting at the end of May to discuss the gradual removal of the United Nations' involvement with Iraq.

It is believed that they have achieved their goals with Iraq, and they believe Iraq's ability to move forward on their own is showing consistent progress.

Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Friday Evening 5-17-24

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Iraq: 2024 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Iraq  

Domestic stability has improved since the new government took office in October 2022. This has facilitated the passage of Iraq’s first three-year budget, which entailed a large fiscal expansion starting in 2023. The non-oil economy has rebounded strongly in 2023 after stalling in 2022 and was largely unaffected by the ongoing conflict in the region.

Nonetheless, Iraq remains highly vulnerable to oil price fluctuations, and private sector activity is hindered by the large state footprint—including as an employer of first resort—corruption, red tape, underdeveloped infrastructure, and poor access to credit.

Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Thursday Evening 5-16-24

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Wirex chooses OpenPayd to launch embedded accounts across UK and EEA | PRN Newswire

"The partnership between the two entities aims to provide named virtual IBANs to Wirex customers across the UK and European Economic Area (EEA), aligning with Wirex's mission to offer secure payment methods to its customers.

Under this partnership, OpenPayd will issue virtual IBANs to Wirex customers in over 30 countries across the UK and EEA. These customers will gain access to the Faster Payments network in the UK and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant payments for Euro-denominated deposits and withdrawals."

This service will be interfaced into Wirex's infrastructure using OpenPayd's single API.

Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Wednesday Evening 5-15-24

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"The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recently revealed that four applications are pending. One of those is from Germany’s 21X (https://www.21x.eu/), the only one of the quartet that has applied for a DLT trading and settlement systems (DLT TSS) license.

If approved, this would allow it to both operate a secondary market (DLT MTF) and run the settlement systems (DLT SS). We were the first DLT TSS applicant in Europe. We do have a first mover advantage that we are hoping to realize,” 21X CEO Max Heinzle told Ledger Insights."

A secondary market allows investors and traders the ability to exchange with each other when a primary Market adds an item for sale. Securities can be directly traded between two entities without having to go through the primary issuer.

This allows the actual price of an item to be driven by supply and demand. An actual value begins to surface over several trades.

Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Tuesday Evening 5-14-24

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Prudential treatment of cryptoasset exposures | BIS

"The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, met on 13 May 2024."

During this meeting, they set up a new Basel 3 standard timeline for crypto asset implementation.

The new timeline was moved from January 1st, 2025 to January 1st, 2026. It is expected that 2/3s of our crypto assets will be done by the end of this year.

The committee wanted to reiterate that the expectation is for these crypto assets to be implemented into Basel 3 "as soon as possible." It is important to know that the bank's exposure to tokenized traditional assets, stablecoins, and unbacked cryptoassets is still set for January 1st, 2025.

It is the crypto assets standards that will continue on until January 1st, 2026.   BIS © Goldilocks ~~~~~~~~~

Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Monday Evening 5-13-24

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"The End Of The World Order And The Rise Of Trade Regulation" Throughout the world, the US has been in process of signing Free Trade Agreements with countries.

These FTAs eliminate barriers to trade significantly. This includes tariffs, improving intellectual property rights, and more.

In addition, they improve laws protecting intellectual property rights, open up government procurement opportunities, and easing investment rules.

The world of trade between countries are changing rapidly at this point. These new trade agreements require credit valuation adjustments across the board including foreign currency exchange rates.  Mondaq   Trade   Cornell Law

WATCH THE WATER.

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Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Monday AM 5-13-24

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The link below provides information on Vietnam's review by the US Department of Commerce regarding Vietnam's ability to move into a Market Economy.

My understanding from the previous article on Vietnam reviewed is that this is not a graded review. It is simply a valuation of the types of goods and services they can provide comprehensively.

Vietnam is showing steady growth in several areas of their Market. Their potential to increase National Capital Investment opportunities on a Global scale is evident.

Clearly, hurdles are being cleared for Vietnam to move into a Market Economy. A Market Economy will allow them to freely move their money  through supply and demand.

Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Sunday Evening 5-12-24

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Breaking: Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse on SEC Lawsuit, Crypto Predictions, XRP Victory | CoinGape

If you think that cryptocurrency is not part of the Presidential race this year, you might want to think again. The population is watching very closely on how Congress deals with our new digital economy.

At the end of June, our Markets in Crypto Assets and Stablecoins are about to become law. We have some coins that just simply won't cut the mustard after that date.

These new regulations becoming law will set directives on their use and their value going forward. Gold and other Commodities will back these tokenized assets and stablecoins that are going to be backed with enough gold and other commodities to keep these digital currencies at a stable value to represent their countries' currency.

Quite simply, unless you hold a digital asset that is part of the new QFS, you may find some of your assets being either banned or just simply going away.

Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Saturday Evening 5-11-24

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EUROPEAN BANKING AUTHORITY MICA ANNOUNCEMENT:

"The EBA publishes final draft technical standards under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MICA)"

Specifically, stablecoins and tokenized assets are currently in the comment stage and ready for the white papers.

A white paper is a final document ready for implementation for business owners in an industry to utilize as a reference guideline. In this case, this particular white paper is for countries around the world to use these stablecoin and asset regulations as a guideline for creating a standardized stablecoins and digital assets they can use Globally.

Remember, Stablecoins and Market assets are a digital representation of a country's currency and the assets they pay for going forward. The standardization process of our Global currencies is currently in their final phases. EBA Europa    CorporateFinanceInstitute

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Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Friday Evening 5-10-24

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"The U.S. is in a dilemma about whether to upgrade the non-market economy status of Vietnam to that of a market economy."

The U.S. Department of Commerce has until late July to complete this review and decision. A market economy would bring with it significant trade relationship opportunities.

Vietnam would become a country where supply and demand would determine prices on their goods and services.

A shift in a monetary policy such as this would bring more power back to the people and less to the government.

It would move from government intervention powers for the stabilization of their currency to incentives toward supply and demand determined by the people and the industries they promote.

Goldilocks' Comments and Global Economic News Thursday Evening 5-9-24

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"Based on the decision of the Board of Directors of this bank No. (191) of 2023, it was decided to give the mediation companies that buy and sell foreign currencies under category (C) to merge to be classified as (A) or (B) until 3/31/2024."

Do you remember this article from the CBI? I remember talking with you about this particular article and how it was a reclassification of the Iraqi dinar. There is more information that is important for us to know at this time, so I have saved it to share with you now.

Moving to an A/B from a C classification essentially means that holders of the Iraqi Dinar is now a registered security. Registered Securities are freely tradable, and they can be sold to public investors on a much more broader scale.

Banks are generally owned by stockholders. This is what forms most of the Equity Capital that comes into a bank. Our foreign currency exchange with banks helps to build liquidity for them and the markets.

Since banks are privately owned for-profit institutions, this makes our foreign currency exchange with them a private exchange.