Bank of Russia has recommended commercial banks pay heightened attention to their clients’ transactions related to cryptocurrencies. The regulator requires the financial institutions to monitor such a...
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COVID restrictions stymie digital yuan rollout at Beijing Winter Olympics
Athletes and support staff at the Beijing Olympics have the option of using digital currency for payments Limiting the number of spectators may result in fewer people testing the digital yuan as a met...
UK Covid cases are back on the rise as travel restrictions dropped
Shoppers walking along Oxford Street in London on Dec. 21, 2021. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Cases of Covid-19 are rising once again in the U.K., according to the latest figures from the...
Japan Asks Crypto Exchanges to Comply With Sanctions Restrictions — Penalty Includes 3 Years in Prison – Regulation Bitcoin News
Japan’s top financial regulator has asked cryptocurrency exchanges in the country not to process transactions subject to asset-freeze sanctions. The penalty for unauthorized payments to sanctioned per...
Although The Restrictions, Cryptocurrency Trading In Russia Is Still Booming
According to statistics from blockchain analytics firm Kaiko, Bitcoin trading volume in rubles reached its highest level this year last week. In comparison to Bitcoins usual daily trading volume of $2...
Sanctions on Russia, Estonia, calls for restrictions on cryptocurrencies
Following calls to this effect by Ukrainian Vice-President and Minister of Technological Innovation Mykhailo Fedorov, for the first time ever, a Prime Minister of Estonia has specifically called for r...
EU to Include Crypto Assets in Restrictions to Prevent Russia & Belarus From Evading Sanctions
In a press release dated 9 March, the European Commission has confirmed further targeted sanctions to block Russia from circumventing any rules. And since crypto was considered a possible loophole to ...
Considering An Inflated US Dollar And Freezing Restrictions, Goldman Sachs’ Blankfein Wonders Whether Cryptocurrency Isn’t Going Through A Phase
In terms of inflation, many people see bitcoin as a hedge against rising prices, including well-known hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, who stated in October of last year that As just a hedge again...
Singapore to Impose Restrictions on Russian Financial and Crypto Transactions – Bitcoin News
In a rare move, Singapore is going to introduce restrictions on certain Russian financial transactions and crypto operations aimed at evading sanctions. The decision comes amid officially expressed co...
Binance Puts Restrictions on Cards From Russian Banks
The stance taken by crypto projects earned greater importance in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Ever since the war was declared, the mobility of cryptocurrencies increased by a greater degree in ...
CySEC Orders CIFs to Ensure Restrictions on Sanctioned Russians
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission ( CySEC CySEC The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) is a financial regulatory authority of Cyprus. CySEC is one of the key watchdog autho...
UK PM Boris Johnson to lift all remaining Covid restrictions in England
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Tobias Hase | Picture Alliance | Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday will laud the lifting of all remaining Covid restrictions in Engla...
Hollywood Keeps On-Set Covid Protocols As Restrictions Ease Elsewhere—Including In Los Angeles
Topline Covid-19 protocols on film and TV sets throughout the country will remain in place through April 30, the major Hollywood unions announced Wednesday, as California and other states relax their ...
Cash App Review: Advantages and Restrictions
Many use apps like Venmo and PayPal to send and receive money. But there’s a new player on the market: Cash App, an app created by Square, Inc., which allows users to transfer or deposit cash into the...
COVID restrictions stymie digital yuan rollout at Beijing Winter Olympics: Report
Though athletes and support staff arriving for the Beijing 2022 Olympics still have the option of using digital currency for payments at many venues, the international test run of China’s CBDC is repo...
China Ends Month-Long Covid Lockdown In Xi’an, New Restrictions In Beijing As Cases Rise
Topline Chinese authorities on Monday lifted a month-long pandemic lockdown in the city of Xi’an and its 13 million residents as Covid-19 cases in the region abated, ending the most stringent pandemic...
UK to impose strict restrictions on misleading crypto ads
In a bid to restrict misleading ads concerning cryptocurrency, the UK Treasury on Tuesday announced its plans to regulate cryptocurrency advertisements as other financial products and ensure that the ...
Australian State Reinstates Pandemic Restrictions As Omicron Upends ‘Living With Covid’ Approach
Topline Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, on Friday unveiled a set of new pandemic restrictions and testing protocols as a record rise in new Covid-19 infections fueled by the omicron ...
Opinion: Sanctioning Russia is a masterstroke that will cement the dollar’s dominant role in world affairs
LONDON (Project Syndicate)— The savage fighting in Ukraine has led many to wonder whether Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supposed strategic brilliance is all that it was chalked up to be. Though P...