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...Letter in response to this article: Russia’s embrace of China’s currency says it all / From Roger W Kirby, Millbrook, NY, US...
...Prosecutors have seized on this and other posts from the fallen billionaire’s prolific Twitter account as they try to convince a New York jury that Bankman-Fried lied to the public, his customers, lenders...
...Eurojust announced the seizure of some €120mn of assets, including bank accounts and real estate. US authorities seized the two New York properties and associated bank accounts on August 10....
...Tehran has been unable to access tens of billions of dollars of its oil funds held by foreign central banks, including in China, since former US president Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal...
...Under normal circumstances JPMorgan, the largest US bank, would have been forbidden from buying First Republic on competition grounds....
...bank accounts were transferred to Guaidó)....
...Just hours after Wall Street opened for trading on Friday morning, US regulators had seized control of Silicon Valley Bank, which had imploded under the strain of depositors pulling out their money en masse...
...Tighter regulations on traditional lenders resulting from the recent rash of bank failures in the US will force even more borrowers towards bonds....
...In 2017 they launched the Silvergate Exchange Network, or SEN, a platform that allowed crypto investors to transfer US dollars from their bank accounts on to a crypto exchange instantly and 24/7, as long...
...Bitfinex has said a significant portion of the funds were seized by authorities and that it is trying to recover the money. In 2019, the US charged two people linked to CCC with bank fraud....
...The $3.3bn of local currency bonds held by non-residents have also been cordoned off from the debt restructuring....
...What’s needed most is a clear presentation of the potential upsides, because right now the evidence from its core market isn’t great....
...Now Russian authorities have seized and raided Google’s domestic bank account, tipping its subsidiary in the country into bankruptcy. Bad news for citizens, but investors need not sweat....
...US intelligence to examine documents seized from Donald Trump The US director of national intelligence has told members of Congress that her office will lead a review into what FBI agents took from Mar-a-Lago...
...“This budget will push us all to the stone age,” said Chaman Khan, a taxi driver in Islamabad. “I can foresee many people closing their bank accounts because there will be nothing to save.”...
...Not only have several Russian banks been barred from the Swift messaging network, but the EU, US and UK have placed sanctions on Russia’s central bank, sharply reducing access to its foreign currency reserves...
...But the president’s opponents had one potential weapon: access to Venezuelan state funds frozen in US bank accounts....
...In 2020, Amnesty International was forced to suspend its operations in India after its bank accounts were frozen following the human rights group’s criticism of Narendra Modi’s government....
...But what if there was pressure to withdraw from China, which accounts for half of its profits and has signalled support for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine?...
...The Turkish lira is the dominant currency and Turkey’s state-owned postal service, PTT, is used to transfer salaries to Syrian workers and host the bank accounts of local councils....
...Donor countries including the US and groups such as the IMF and World Bank have stopped funding to Afghanistan, where foreign aid accounts for more than 40 per cent of gross domestic product....
...Letter in response to this editorial comment: Banks should not be the gatekeepers of digital currencies / From Daniel Aronoff, PhD Candidate in Economics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, US...
...We got something like £50,000 in our bank account. We thought we were rich! Alan went out and bought the biggest Scalextric set, and we built a giant track in our spare room....
...“Central bank digital currencies . . . offer in digital form the unique advantages of central bank money: settlement finality, liquidity and integrity,” it said....
...Police have also seized digital evidence and documents after raiding Thodex’s Istanbul offices this week....
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