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The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, “is at risk of a severe fiscal crisis,” according to a U.S. Government Accounting Office report. The CNMI had $114 million of debt outstanding as of September 2020, much of it bond debt, according to its most recent audited statement. The government at that time
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Ballard Spahr has promoted three public finance attorneys to partners the firm announced. The public finance lawyers include Charles Treece, Azer Akhtar, both in Washington, D.C., and Jennifer Santangelo in Philadelphia. They were among the seven attorneys Ballard Spahr elected to the firm’s partnership on July 1. Treece’s practice focuses on representing government-sponsored enterprises and
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16Rock Asset Management LLC has launched a new hedge fund aimed at using a multi-strategy approach to capture the $4 trillion municipal markets’ recurring opportunities. The new fund, which launched Saturday and is open to trade, is called the 16Rock Municipal Opportunities Fund LP and will compete in the small universe of municipal hedge funds.
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The government has begun the search for a new BBC chair after appointing headhunters Saxton Bampfylde to oversee the job of replacing former board head Richard Sharp who resigned over a “potential perceived conflict of interest”.  The hunt for the next head of the public broadcaster has assumed greater significance after criticism of the process
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People walk by electric truck maker Rivian’s newly opened storefront in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan on June 23, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Electric vehicles — Electric vehicle makers such as Rivian Automotive surged following Tesla’s better-than-expected second-quarter production and
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The writer is an FT contributing editor The successive shocks we’ve experienced over the past three years have had a lasting impact on the global economy. But according to John Williams, president of the New York Federal Reserve, and his co-authors Kathryn Holston and the late Thomas Laubach, the economy may not have transformed as
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Singapore’s central bank is introducing new measures to improve investor protection and market integrity in the cryptocurrency industry. On July 3, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced new requirements for crypto service providers to hold customer assets into a statutory trust by year-end. “This will mitigate the risk of loss or misuse of customers’
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A spectre is haunting Europe. The spectre of Donald Trump. Many European decision makers admit that they were caught unprepared by Trump’s election as US president in 2016. They are determined not to make the same mistake again. But knowing that Trump might win the presidency back in 2024, and knowing what to do about
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Despite changes introduced by Twitter management since Elon Musk’s takeover, the issue around fake followers remains a persistent problem. As many as 10% of the followers of accounts belonging to crypto influencers and companies are fake, new data from dappGambl has revealed. In April 2023, Musk introduced Twitter Blue — an $8 monthly subscription for verification
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The Belarusian foreign ministry is working on legal amendments to prohibit peer-to-peer, or P2P, transactions in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Republic of Belarus on July 2 issued an official announcement on Telegram about new legislation that would ban P2P crypto exchange for individuals. The authority cited a
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