Bitcoin adoption could swell in Cuba, particularly if private businesses understand the upside to accepting Bitcoin as currency. That’s according to a Cuban businessperson and Bitcoin advocate, Erich Garcia Cruz. A recent emigrant to the United States, Cruz is a vocal proponent of Bitcoin adoption in Cuba. Cruz leads the remittance and money transfer services
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Veteran Conservative MPs have urged colleagues to endorse the privileges committee report on Boris Johnson in the House of Commons on Monday, as jittery Tories consider skipping an expected vote. The committee condemned the former UK prime minister for contempt of parliament, including lying to MPs over the Covid-19 partygate scandal, in a damning 108-page
Odey Asset Management has suspended trading in a fourth fund following a “sizeable level” of withdrawal requests in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against founder Crispin Odey, which have precipitated the break-up of one of London’s oldest hedge fund firms. The firm said in a letter to investors on Friday that it was temporarily
European stocks rose on Friday following an overnight rally on Wall Street, as signs of an end to the Federal Reserve’s tighter interest rate policy pushed some of the world’s biggest tech stocks to all-time highs. Europe’s region-wide Stoxx 600 added 0.4 per cent at the open, while France’s Cac 40 and London’s FTSE 100
Five months after China’s president Xi Jinping declared victory over the pandemic and relaxed stringent social controls, new data this week revealed that the country’s economy was far from returning to full health. While consumers are venturing out to spend, buyers are shunning property, one of the Chinese economy’s central growth drivers. Exports, another important
Fifty miles north of what is now Edinburgh and nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman empire’s Twentieth Legion began to build a fort near the River Tay. By Roman standards, it was unremarkable, despite its 20-hectare size and earthworks several metres thick. It boasted a forge, hospital and granaries, but lacked baths and aqueducts —
The third time Dhunya De Silva tried to move to London, she hoped it would be different. After she and her boyfriend had been promoted at work, she thought they might be able to afford to rent in the capital. The 23-year-old had previously tried to move from Hertfordshire, just north of the city, first
As champagne flowed in the Denver Nuggets locker room on Monday after the basketball team’s first NBA league title, Josh Kroenke, scion of the Kroenke-Walton families that have owned it since 2000, reflected on what the victory meant for the Colorado city’s residents. “Enjoy it. This is for you,” he told the local Kroenke-owned Altitude
They have a business concept, prestigious French engineering degrees, stints at US tech groups and now €105mn to play with. Thirtysomethings Arthur Mensch, Timothée Lacroix and Guillaume Lample became the EU’s new AI darlings this week, with a record seed fundraising round. Their spectacular financing success — it was Europe’s largest-ever seed round — values
A rogue prime minister has been found guilty of lying to parliament, by a committee containing a majority of his own party. England has seen nothing like this in 300 years — since the role was created. This is our Watergate: and the attempts to trivialise it demonstrate what was wrong with the Johnson regime.
Wearing helmets marked with Russian flags, the men leap from tanks to a Daft Punk soundtrack made for a sci-fi movie, brandishing Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers. Then comes a Hollywood-style voiceover: “State corporation Roscosmos calls on you to join the Uran volunteer battalion, where you will be trained for victory in this great war.” The
Job cuts at the largest US banks this year are on course to surpass 11,000 as Wall Street contends with the worst recruitment market since the financial crisis following a pandemic-era hiring binge. Citigroup this week became the latest big US bank to announce significant job cuts, telling investors that it planned to complete 5,000
BlackRock’s latest filing for a spot Bitcoin (BTC) trust will drive investors’ confidence in Bitcoin and may even be “the best thing that could happen” to BTC, according to some crypto industry observers — but others warn of a hidden cost. During an interview on June 16, Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz said the approval
A raft of weak Chinese economic data in May has raised hopes of decisive policy intervention. Market watchers are anticipating the next steps from China’s State Council and a Politburo meeting in July, during which the Communist Party’s top brass will review the country’s economic performance in the first half of the year. related investing
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Hong Kong lays out the red carpet for crypto exchanges While some jurisdictions (cough: America) have adopted a regulation-by-enforcement approach toward crypto, others are doing the opposite. According to a June 15 report from The Financial Times, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority is pressuring major financial institutions to accept crypto clients. But it’s not just
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Disney’s longtime chief financial officer Christine McCarthy is stepping down and will take a “family medical leave of absence”, the company said on Thursday. McCarthy, who has worked at Disney for decades, will stay on as an adviser to help with the succession process that weighs over the Hollywood giant. “She and I have discussed
The US banking regulator has kicked off the sale of collapsed Silicon Valley Bank’s German operations, seeking bids by July 19 for the $460mn portfolio of loans, leases and other assets. Details of the sale were disclosed in marketing materials sent to large investors in recent days by First Financial Network, the loans specialist handling
In this article BLK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bitcoin is up 50% so far in 2023, beating major commodities and stock indexes. Filip Radwanski | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Asset management giant BlackRock took the first steps Thursday to launch a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund, which has long been a