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New BRICS Investment Platform to Facilitate BRICS-Global South Integration
How will the continued drive towards a digital ruble and BRICS investment platform shape the rest of 2025 amidst ongoing geopolitical tensions across the globe?
Austin Hodge
June 20, 2025
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Continuing a bold movement to simultaneously spur de-dollarization while further integrating BRICS and BRICS-aligned countries, Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi Jinping spearhead a new investment platform aimed at invigorating BRICS cooperation with the Global South. The platform would aim to funnel investment directly to emerging markets without third-party countries or currencies and could potentially include digital assets.
Meanwhile, Visa is powering stablecoin cross-border payments across 20 African nations, Kraken debuts BTC staking, 16 Billion passwords have been exposed by a data breach across Google, Facebook, and GitHub, and X CEO Linda Yaccarino reiterates the platform’s drive to become the “everything app” forming a hub for consumer investment, trading, and CashApp style peer-to-peer payments among other planned features.
Let's dive in!
Putin and Xi to initiate a BRICS investment platform aiming to bolster the Global South's economy. — Read More
Visa partners with Yellow Card to introduce stablecoin-powered payments in Africa, using USDC for efficient cross-border transactions. — Read More
Russia plans mass adoption of its Digital Ruble by 2026, intensifying global CBDC competition. — Read More
Cybernews uncovers 16 billion login records in a massive data breach across Facebook, Google, and GitHub, posing a major threat to online users and crypto security. — Read More
X CEO Linda Yaccarino announces trading and investment options on the platform, highlighting the partnership with Visa while facing regulatory challenges. — Read More
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