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Ceasefire

An agreement to stop fighting, which may be temporary, local or conditional. It is a pause in hostilities…

Tokenisation

Issuing a blockchain token that represents a claim on something off-chain, such as a bond, a fund share…

Bipartisan

Supported by members of opposing parties. It describes the pattern of support for a measure, not its merits.

Cloud computing

Renting computing power and storage from a provider rather than running your own servers. It converts a capital…

Yield

The income an investment returns, expressed as a percentage of its price. Bond yields move inversely to bond…

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