EU’s 6 biggest economies back single finance watchdog

Creating a “savings and investments union … has become an urgent strategic necessity,” the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain said.

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Gov to IPO Anxiety: 'Minister for Vulnerability Business' Appointed

"National Vulnerability Fund" bundles data breaches to cracked bridges. Citizens ask when their My Number becomes a stock ticker.

https://alt.andpaper.net/en/articles/20251231-vulnerability-asset-minister/

#AnxietyIPO #Securitization #Satire

www.sei.org/wp-content/u... "offers a “third way”–between a strictly #territorial approach to adaptation, and an already emerging and riskier #securitization approach to #adaptation dominated by #defence logics, which has the potential to lead to less #collaborative policies and less effective..."

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https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/strategic-resilience.pdf

Sound advice!

"The authors suggest that such an approach offers a “third way” forward – between a strictly #territorial approach to adaptation, and an already emerging and riskier #securitization approach to #adaptation dominated by #defence logics, which has the potential to lead to less #collaborative policies and less effective #investments."

#humanrights #resilience #justice humanrights

EU resurrects banking practice that caused the 2008 financial crisis

Securitization allows banks to repackage and resell debt, famously explained by actress Margot Robbie in a bubble bath in the film “The Big Short.”

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The Korea Housing Finance Corporation is set to launch a covered bond securitization program in H2 2025, aiming to boost long-term mortgage issuance by banks and stabilize household debt amid shifting market conditions.
#YonhapInfomax #KoreaHousingFinanceCorporation #CoveredBond #LongTermMortgage #Securitization #BankIssuance #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=66789
Bank Sector Accelerates Covered Bond Securitization—Will Long-Term Mortgages Revive?

The Korea Housing Finance Corporation is set to launch a covered bond securitization program in H2 2025, aiming to boost long-term mortgage issuance by banks and stabilize household debt amid shifting market conditions.

Yonhap Infomax
Document: EU to loosen rules for resold debt

The European Commission plans to make it easier for banks to invest in resold debt, known as “securitization,” under draft proposals to revise rules for the practice seen by POLITICO. The Commissio…

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Financialization, deregulation and securitization transactions

Africa: Infrastructure Lender AFC Eyes $500m Emerging Market Securitization: [Daba Finance] Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is planning a transaction involving at least $500 million in synthetic asset-backed securities Synthetic ABS allows lenders to transfer loan-loss risks to investors, such as pension and hedge funds, via credit-linked notes The corporation recently priced a $500 million perpetual hybrid… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THVYjQ #Africa #Finance #Investment #EmergingMarkets #Securitization
“Here, the firewall is not merely a tool—it is an actor within a neoliberal technocratic order, enforcing compliance with a constructed vision of ‘secure communication’ while erasing alternate possibilities for networked interaction” — Michel Foucault, Network Architect
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110675
#CriticalTheory #foucault #infosec #securitization
“Here, the firewall is not merely a tool—it is an actor within a neoliberal technocratic order, enforcing compliance with a constructed vision of ‘secure communication’ while erasing alternate possibilities for networked interaction” — Michel Foucault, Network Architect

I got ChatGPT to role-play what Michel Foucault would say if tasked to present a threat model for an internet-connected enterprise firewall. There is a legit reason for this, I swear. Also: Perhaps…

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