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Bank for International Settlements BIS: Research papersAI Score5454
The Bank for International Settlements released Working Paper No. 1385, which compares the total costs of three cross-border payment channels: traditional correspondent banking and SWIFT-based bank transfers, fintech remittance operators such as Wise and Remitly, and stablecoin transfers. The study combines intraday fintech pricing, World Bank remittance data, bank transfer transactions, and crypto market data to construct comparable cost indicators across currencies and remittance sizes, distinguishing between foreign exchange markups and explicit fees.
QuantLib 1.44 has been officially released, available for download as both QuantLib-1.44.tar.gz and QuantLib-1.44.zip. This version removes features deprecated in version 1.39, adds several new features, and deprecates a batch of features that will be removed in a future version (expected to be 1.49). This version can still be tested with Visual C++ 2017, but subsequent versions may no longer support this compiler.
Block Scholes has released its Week 40 crypto derivatives market analysis report. The report shows that despite pressure from the macro environment, BTC prices consolidated in the $82,000 to $84,000 range, while spot BTC and ETH ETFs recorded net capital inflows for seven consecutive days. In the options market, the 25-delta skew for BTC and ETH fluctuated between demand for downside protection and preference for upside exposure, with 7-day ETH implied volatility rising by nearly 10 percentage points.
Block Scholes has released its Week 38 crypto derivatives market analysis report, which shows that the market is currently pricing in a 93% probability of a rate hike at the Federal Reserve's meeting the following day, while the probability of the Clarity Act being passed by the end of 2026 on Polymarket has dropped to 19%. The implied volatility across all tenors for BTC options is in the 38%-39% range, and the implied volatility across all tenors for ETH options is in the 52%-54% range. BTC options skew is close to neutral, ETH options skew shows a moderately bullish stance, and the BTC and ETH risk appetite indices are near historical high ranges.
Deribit has launched the largest perpetual contract product expansion in its history, initially rolling out over 90 new USDC-settled contracts covering five major market categories: cryptocurrencies, listed stocks and ETFs, commodities, the COIN50 index, and Anthropic and OpenAI pre-IPO markets.
In Episode 125 of Deribit's Crypto Options Unplugged podcast, Imran Lakha and David Brickell discuss whether pressure in the global bond markets could become the catalyst for Bitcoin's next major rally.
Block Scholes has released its Week 35 crypto derivatives market analysis report, noting that the U.S. Treasury's plan to double the scale of long-term Treasury buybacks, combined with expectations for the advancement of the Clarity Act, drove BTC up 20% during the week to break through $80,000, and ETH up 30% during the week.
Bridgewater released a research report, arguing that the inflation center in the post-pandemic era has risen compared with that before the pandemic, 2% is more like a bottom than an upper limit, and the distribution of inflation outcomes is wider and skewed upward. The report compares the current environment with that in the 2010s, pointing out that restraining factors such as China's export of low-priced goods, shale oil production, and post-crisis deleveraging have weakened; while the medium-term expansion deficit of about 7% of US GDP, the compromised independence of the Federal Reserve, tariffs and trade restructuring, potential depreciation of the US dollar, and AI power and commodity demand constitute structural inflationary pressures.
