La prédiction, un marché de niche pour parieurs compulsifs ? Certaines fintech voient dans les marchés prédictifs un levier pour attirer en masse une clientèle « plus joueuse ». A contrario, d’autres acteurs y voient un terrain miné. Entre les deux, de nombreux acteurs de l’industrie bancaire et financière se questionnent.

Paris Blockchain Week highlighted the strategy adopted by global leaders in the crypto-asset sector, who are using regulation as a tool to shape and control the European digital market. This approach favors players with significant resources, thereby creating a de facto regulatory oligopoly.

La Paris Blockchain Week a mis en lumière la stratégie adoptée par les leaders mondiaux des crypto-actifs, qui utilisent la réglementation comme un levier pour structurer et contrôler le marché numérique européen. Cette approche favorise les acteurs disposant de ressources importantes, créant ainsi un oligopole réglementaire de fait.

Growth in the Spanish economy remains solid at the start of 2026, although it is showing signs of moderating in a more uncertain international environment. Domestic demand – underpinned by private consumption and investment – remains the main driver of economic activity, buoyed by a labour market that remains dynamic and by the impetus of public policies. At the same time, the external sector is making a...

Economic activity slowed in 2025, whilst remaining resilient in a context of high uncertainty and rising trade tensions. The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has already resulted in higher energy prices and renewed geopolitical uncertainty. Under the assumption of a very gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, without a return to normal conditions, consumer prices would accelerate on average in...

This scenario is set against a backdrop of military, political and economic uncertainty that makes forecasting the scale of shocks and their macroeconomic impact particularly risky. But one thing is certain: the tightening of external constraints on the Eurozone, which is facing more volatile prices on global energy markets. Whilst, unlike in 2022, the risk is less one of shortages, its vulnerability to...

Quand l’histoire américaine du free banking et des wildcat banks nous parle des stablecoins, de Tether et de son USDT.

The powerful political and geopolitical consequences of the conflict in the Middle East will extend far beyond the more immediate ones that this scenario aims to identify. This conflict is not an isolated incident, but rather it is part of a series of supply shocks (the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, Houthi attacks) that highlight critical dependencies on a few key chokepoints (eg, commodities...

Les conséquences politiques et géopolitiques, puissantes, du conflit dans le golfe Persique s’étendront durablement bien au-delà de celles, plus immédiates, que ce scénario a pour vocation de cerner. Ce conflit ne constitue pas un accident isolé, mais s’inscrit dans une série de chocs d’offre (pandémie de Covid, guerre en Ukraine, attaques houthies) qui témoigne des dépendances critiques à quelques...