Policy
Kazakhstan sets ministry deadlines under Digital Qazaqstan, with real-time budget control
A 6 October Government session ordered duplicate-project reviews, a single data architecture and automated budget checks; it published no budget amounts.
PolicyAnalysis
Egypt's IMF programme nears its end with state ownership reform the open item
The IMF's July review leaves an execution plan for the State Ownership Policy, a US$1.5bn divestment goal and state bank governance fixes to be delivered before December.
PolicyAnalysis
IMF reviews for Madagascar and Liberia tie next steps to governance diagnostics
The Fund asks Madagascar to adopt a governance action plan and Liberia to publish its diagnostic and lift legal barriers to releasing officials' asset declarations.
Policy
IMF tells Gulf finance chiefs to keep wartime support temporary and rebuild buffers
The Managing Director's 1 October remarks to GCC ministers also call for stronger digital-asset rules; the EU postponed its Riyadh summit with the bloc on 15 October.
CalendarBrief
The Week Ahead, 19 October: CBAM trilogue, OFAC deadlines, FATF plenary
The first trilogue on extending CBAM downstream, two OFAC wind-down deadlines, UN reviews and the FATF's October plenary, with the document behind each.
