Our Scans · (FS.5.04) Money Market · Weekly Summary

• The proposed Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act has led some to suggest that it might become a regulatory requirement for USD-denominated digital tokens (stablecoins) to back their coins with nothing but US Treasury bills. / USA Unlimited Hangout
• HiddenLayer's Top 5 AI Threat Vectors in 2025 flags compromised models from public repos as enemy #1: hackers slip malicious code into open-source Hugging Face uploads, turning trusted tools into backdoors. Rod's Blog
• The US Treasury Department announced it will increase its issuance of Treasury bills-debt maturing in a year or less - to meet its rising funding requirements. Mortgage Professional
• Tokenized Treasury bills became highly attractive to both institutional and retail investors, especially in the context of seeking stable and risk-adjusted returns. ChainCatcher
• Institutions could invest in ONDO via brokerage accounts, meaning things like pension funds or endowments could indirectly gain exposure to tokenized Treasury bills (through Ondo's ecosystem) in a regulated way. yellow.com
• An increasing share now comes from short-term Treasury bills, raising refinancing risks. / USA JIRAAF
• Growing demand for stablecoins could boost demand for Treasury bills. BlackRock
• Stablecoin issuers could become the third-largest buyer of Treasury bills in the coming years. ST
• Tokenization platform OpenEden has announced that it will bring tokenized US Treasury bills, a short-term US government debt obligation backed by the US Department of the Treasury, to the XRP Ledger and its users for the first time. Connecting the dots in FinTech...
• While Canadian fixed-rate mortgages are expected to remain unchanged or increase due to pressure from US treasury bills, discounts for variable-rate mortgages continue to disappear as banks see the BoC providing further cuts to the policy rate. nesto.ca
• 2025 could easily see the largest cyberattack in history, taking down, at least for a little while, some sizeable piece of the world's infrastructure, whether for deliberate ransom or to manipulate people to make money off a short on global markets. Cybercrime Magazine
• The Reserve Bank of India is expected to cut the repo rate one more time during the ongoing financial year, before shifting to a pause mode. TFIPOST.COM
• The Reserve Bank of India shocked markets with a 50 bps cut to the key repo rate, an even larger cut than most expected in March. Somvisit

Last updated: 21 October 2025