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Ari Liloan

Will Trump's stablecoin push keep the US dollar king?

The global market for stablecoins is expected to be worth $2tn in three years' time. President Donald Trump is urging their adoption to preserve US monetary supremacy. Will the strategy work?

Toufic Chanbour 21 October 2025
Ewan White

Crypto crossroad: the Middle East faces a digital dilemma

There are vastly different approaches to digital assets across the region, with some still reticent to embrace a $4tn industry

Sharif Mohammad 30 September 2025
Nash Weerasekera

The future of Crypto? From $TRUMP tokens to a quantum race

Digital currencies like Bitcoin face new challenges, while countries' regulators either seem to love them or loathe them. In Part 2 of a two-part series, Al Majalla asks: will it be boom or bust?

Khaled Kassar 13 February 2025
Adrian Astorgano

Crypto's wild ride: From boundless prosperity to the brink of collapse

The currencies now have a fan in the White House. His promise of more regulatory flexibility has fuelled investor appetite and sent the price soaring. In Part 1 of a two-part series, we ask: what now?

Khaled Kassar 12 February 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Cryptocurrency markets see uptick in investor confidence

As of 2024, global cryptocurrency ownership is estimated at an average of 6.8% of the world population, with over 560 million people owning cryptocurrency, according to Triple-A, a cryptocurrency…

Al Majalla - London 24 December 2024
Cryptocurrency investors still trust it as a leading way to decentralise finance Axel Rangel Garcia

Cryptocurrencies hit by volatility but investors keep the faith

Investors in the digital alternative to traditional money continue to trust Bitcoin and its rivals a leading way to decentralise finance

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 22 July 2024
This is the story of the high-flying crypto king and the collapse of the empire he built. Axel Rangel Garcia

Sam Bankman-Fried’s $16 billion-foot fall from grace

This is the story of the high-flying crypto king and the collapse of the empire he built

Khaled Kassar 02 February 2023
A representation of bitcoin is seen in an illustration picture taken on June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Bitcoin Climbs Above $20,000 First Time in Over Two Months

Bitcoin rose on Saturday above $20,000 for first time in over two months. Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, rose 4.6% to $20,853 at 01:01 GMT on Saturday, adding $922 to…

14 January 2023
A representations of cryptocurrencies in this illustration taken, January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Hong Kong Set to Shortlist Crypto Tokens for Retail Trading

Hong Kong securities watchdog will propose a subset of tokens it would allow for retail investors' trading, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as it presses on with a new regulatory regime that…

11 January 2023
FILE - The FTX Arena logo is seen where the Miami Heat basketball team plays on Nov. 12, 2022, in Miami. The former CEO of failed crypto firm FTX Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, the U.S. attorney’s office in New York said Monday, Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in The Bahamas

The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, U.S. and Bahamian authorities said Monday. The arrest…

AP 13 December 2022
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Politics

Mojtaba Khamenei: Iran’s third Supreme Leader

12 March 2026

The appointment represents one of the most consequential political shifts in the Islamic Republic in more than three decades

Al Majalla - London
IRGC soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran on 22 September, 2018. AFP
Politics

The US-Iran war could empower the IRGC

09 March 2026

When states are attacked, authority gravitates towards institutions capable of mobilising resources, enforcing discipline, and coordinating a military response

Alex Vatanka
Demonstrators wave Iranian national flags as they gather for a rally in support of the new Supreme Leader at Enghelab Square in central Tehran on 9 March 2026. AFP
Politics

Why regime change in Iran is unlikely

10 March 2026

There are few examples of successful US regime-change operations in history. And without permanent ground troop presence, these wins can easily be reversed.

Christopher Phillips
Tugboats help an oil tanker dock at Qingdao port in Shandong province, eastern China, on 4 August 2019. AFP
Business & Economy

The US-Iran war could consolidate China’s energy dominance

10 March 2026

Crises often reorder energy geopolitics in unexpected ways. This one may ultimately strengthen, rather than weaken, China's strategic position.

Jason Bordoff and Erica Downs
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian is greeted by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during the D-8 summit in Cairo, Egypt, on 19 December 2024. AFP
Politics

Egypt fears an unrestrained Israel if Iran collapses

06 March 2026

Cairo and Tehran have been at loggerheads since 1979, but the Iranian threat has always acted as a check on Israeli ambitions. If Iran is completely defeated, Israel will reign supreme.

Amr Emam

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