Lawmakers in Panama’s National Assembly on Thursday approved a bill to regulate the use and commercialization of crypto assets in the Central American country renowned as a hub of offshore financial services.
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Central African Republic’s adoption of bitcoin, while many of the world’s largest economies stay wary of it, has puzzled the cryptocurrency world and residents of the gold and diamond-producing country, and prompted caution from the IMF.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that no fewer than 43,000 persons in Anambra State have so far benefited in the intervention empowerment scheme of the bank.
Wealth managers at the big global banks are tempering their expectations for Asia, their fastest growing market, after China’s regulatory crackdown and COVID-driven slowdown helped to push clients to the sidelines, bankers and analysts said.
The Swiss National Bank is against buying and holding bitcoin as a reserve currency, Chairman Thomas Jordan said at the central bank’s annual general meeting on Friday.
Credit Suisse’s (CSGN.S) roughly 10 key investors back the bank’s board and its strategy, Chairman Axel Lehmann told Swiss newspaper NZZ.
European Union finance ministers will take a step towards completing the bloc’s banking union on Tuesday by agreeing on a long roadmap of when and how to agree on the still missing elements, a draft statement of the ministers showed.
Citibanamex, Citigroup’s Mexican consumer banking arm, started sharing information with potential bidders, one of the first steps in a process to find a new owner, Chief Executive Manuel Romo said on Friday.
Information reaching us says Prosecutors, German federal police and other officials searched Deutsche Bank’s (DBKGn.DE) headquarters in Frankfurt on Friday in a move Germany’s largest lender said was linked to suspicions of money laundering it had reported to the authorities.
Report reaching us says that European Central Bank policymaker and hawk Robert Holzmann expects an initial interest rate increase this summer or autumn and for rates to rise gradually before settling next year around 1% or 1.5%, he told Austrian broadcaster ORF on Friday.