Simon French
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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grab more of the wallet for your short term debt as a as a G seven country, as a a developed economy.
Um because stable coins are being widely used to transfer um
uh uh you know value around the world.
Then you can underscore the demand for your debt and keep yields under control at a time of quite considerable flux in those yield rates.
Right.
Well you do have still, even in the era of uh quite uh rapid and significant uh financial innovation, you still have quite significant um transactional costs uh across geographical jurisdictions, um m mainly based on currency, but there are other um barriers, charging barriers in place.
And to
To some extent, a stable coin that is backed by a universally recognised asset um that is uh homogenous and can be recognised in all jurisdictions can chip away at those fees.
It's not quite um, you know, Western Union in sort of digital crypto form, but but there is certainly a strong use case there if you can get it right.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, I think so.
I mean there's a domestic advantage if you can domin I mean, I think you said again in your intro and it was an excellent intro that I this is dominated at the moment by um
US stable coins.
I think it's about ninety-seven percent the last time I looked.
Um and the uh there are rumors in recent weeks that the Chinese are pursuing this more aggressively.
Um I think the reality is that it is a competitive world out there to to fund what is now a
just shy of three hundred trillion dollar debt market and with um options down currency lines, down geographical lines for investors, um providing some use case, some utility, some enhanced utility in your own currency.
can allow you to have something of a competitive advantage.
And it's very clear from the Trump administration that they want competitive advantages in their debt markets, in their equity markets, in the real economy, in terms of FX.
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