https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010171080800680-belarusian-opposition-holding-womens-march-in-central-minsk—photos-videos/ MINSK (Sputnik) – Several dozen opposition supporters are holding a traditional women’s march in Minsk on Saturday, a Sputnik correspondent reported. A small group of participants first gathered near a shopping mall in the Belarusian capital and then started marching down Independence Avenue. Initially, they marched without slogans and symbols but later unfurled opposition white-red-white flags. Participants of the […]
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Kandice Ortega cleaned the tables and phones in building 503 with a sanitary pad. There were no fresh rags, but she didn’t want to live in filth — cleanliness had taken on a new, pressing importance. Like many, Ortega worried about getting COVID-19. But unlike much of the country, Ortega had few options to limit her exposure. She is incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility […]
Riksbank Governor Stevan Ingves sees a Swedish digital currency as an imperative for the central bank. Source link
Amy Cooper, the white woman who called police on a Black man after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park, called 911 twice during the Memorial Day incident, falsely stating in a previously unreported call that he “tried to assault her,” prosecutors revealed Wednesday. Cooper, 41, was charged in July with a misdemeanor count of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, […]
The Australian central bank sees no need to issue its own retail digital currency just yet, a top official said Wednesday. Tony Richards, head of payments policy at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), told the UWA Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Fintech conference that his agency had evaluated retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and found “no strong public policy case” for introducing a general use version […]
New reports on digital currency design principles and regulatory standards show just how quickly the world’s bankers are moving. Source link
International financial authorities and seven of the world’s largest economies are establishing official standards for regulating and issuing sovereign digital currencies. The Group of Seven (G7) — an organization of finance ministers and central bank governors representing the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Japan — said in a report last week that it is working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the […]
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said Monday that the central bank will begin experiments on a digital yen in the spring. Source link
Chen Yulu, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said at the weekend that the digital yuan project should be accelerated as an important part of the nation’s financial infrastructure. Source link
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The seven central banks, along with BIS, have released a report setting out agreed core objectives that must be met by national digital currencies. Source link
The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
BRUSSELS (Sputnik), Luc Rivet – George Soros and his allies in the European parliament are currently celebrating a victory at the European Court of Human Rights against Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the ruling that the country’s law that forced its Central European University out of Hungary contradicts the EU law. This is only the latest of attacks on the Eastern European country […]
An official for China’s central bank has unveiled usage statistics of state-backed digital currency trials that were conducted in three Chinese cities. Speaking virtually at the Sibos 2020 conference on Monday, Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said the bank opened 113,300 consumer digital wallets and 8,859 corporate digital wallets for residents of Shenzhen, Suzhou and Xiong’an to pilot a digital yuan. […]
As the European Union gets more serious about a digital euro, most central bank digital currencies intend to remove the anonymity of cash. Our main discussion: central bank coins and financial privacy. The EU recently released a new research paper on a possible digital euro. Like many other official central bank reports, it assumes there is no possibility of an anonymous digital bank currency. NLW dissects […]
Eesti Pank said the initiative will gauge the suitability of the KSI Blockchain, already used within the country’s e-government system, in supporting a central bank digital currency. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080649757_0:354:2001:1479_1200x675_80_0_0_7359f3f16a2574052c32bf3ce83ddae7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010031080649688-unknown-man-attacks-ghostbusters-star-near-nycs-central-park—video/ After the assault, Moranis, 67, had to take himself to hospital, and then reported the attack to a local police station, according to media, citing law enforcement. The “Ghostbusters” and “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” star, Rick Moranis, has been attacked while walking on a sidewalk not far from Central Park in New York City. “Rick Moranis was assaulted on […]
The Bahamas confirmed it will cross the central bank digital currency (CBDC) finish line next month. “The intended outcome of Project Sand Dollar is that all residents in The Bahamas would have use of a central bank digital currency, on a modernized technology platform, with an experience and convenience—legally and otherwise—that resembles cash,” the central bank said. Source link
The central bank of Thailand announced on Friday it has launched the “DLT Scripless Bond Project” aimed at building a secure and efficient government bond infrastructure. Source link
The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009021080351871-syria-intercepts-israeli-strike-on-central-air-base—state-media/ According to Syrian state media, several missiles fired at the T-4 air base were intercepted on Wednesday. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Syrian air defenses over the city of Homs engaged a barrage of “rockets” allegedly fired by an Israeli aircraft at the T4 air base. The report notes the missiles came from the direction of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107814/74/1078147454_0:0:1367:768_1200x675_80_0_0_4e241af8d2b93abf2fead54bfcb60ee8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202008181080200468-magnitude-69-earthquake-strikes-central-philippines/ A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines on Tuesday local time, according to the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG). The quake occurred in Samar, an island in the Philippines. The earthquake was felt most strongly in Mapanas, Legazpi, Lezo and Aklan. The next strongest intensity level was felt in Iloilo, followed by Roxas City. The United States Geological Survey recorded the […]
According to Environment Canada, the country’s weather information agency, many municipalities were placed under multiple warnings and watches on Sunday afternoon. The agency warned that the storms could last until the evening. Environment Canada warned that large parts of eastern and central Ontario could face strong storms, thunderstorms and rainfall on Sunday, noting that they could be capable of producing tornadoes. One such storm, located near Moulton […]
The Czech National Bank’s Tomas Holub said in an interview that central bank digital currencies raise more questions than answers right now. Source link
The Bank of Japan is warming to digital currencies and now has a team dedicated to researching a possible digital yen. Source link
Thailand’s digital currency is backed by the central bank’s foreign currency reserves, which have grown by $25 billion over the past 12 months. Source link
CDC headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia, photo via CDC The Trump administration announced new guidelines on Wednesday. Starting today hospitals will be ordered to bypass the CDC and send ALL COVID-19 patient information to a central database in Washington DC. This comes after TGP’s Tuesday report on the likely fraudulent numbers coming from the CDC. EXCLUSIVE: Three Reasons the China Coronavirus Incidence and Mortality Counts Reported by the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107847/05/1078470558_0:0:1200:676_1200x675_80_0_0_36c31b8d15afbd96c78667472edb06e5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202007111079859283-mine-blast-kills-6-civilians-injures-8-in-central-afghanistan/ KABUL (Sputnik) – A roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghazni killed six civilians and wounded eight others, a Saturday statement from the governor’s office said. The blast took place in the Dara-e-Qiaq area, in Ghazni province’s Jaghatu district, at around 4 p. m. local time (12:00 GMT) on Saturday, according to the statement from Ghazni governor’s […]
DiDi, the Chinese equivalent of Uber, is forming a task force to design and implement a trial of China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) on its transportation platform. A spokesperson of the Chinese ride-hailing mobile service told CoinDesk in an email response that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) in an effort […]
A leading economist shares why crisis-time central bank policies are saving zombie companies while hurting small businesses and startups. Our main discussion is with Daniel Lacalle. Daniel is chief economist at Tressis and is the author of numerous books including “Life in the Financial Markets,” “Escape from the Central Bank Trap” and his most recent, “Freedom or Equality.” He has been named one of the 100 […]
Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the police in May and falsely accused a Black man of threatening her life after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park, faces charges for the incident, prosecutors announced Monday. Cooper, 41, will be charged with filing a false report, a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to a year in jail, for making the May 25 […]