HSBC has put $10 billion of paper-based private placement records on R3’s Corda blockchain and plans to ramp up the project through this year and next. “We’re confident that we’ll be able to put significant additional volume and value of private placements from new and existing clients [on the platform] over the next 12 to 18 months,” said Ciaran Roddy, head of custody innovation and strategy […]
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The US Treasury Department has slapped fresh sanctions on Iran, accusing several Iranian firms of aiding terrorism. Meanwhile, Tehran and the UN have called for the easing of sanctions amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The Treasury sanctioned 15 individuals and five companies on Thursday, accusing them of supporting and acting “on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force,” considered by Washington to be a terrorist organization. […]
Tests being carried out on the delayed and over-budget F-35 have been suspended as part of a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, the Pentagon has announced. The fighter plane has already suffered a string of pricey setbacks. Activities necessary to complete the F-35’s operational test phase have been halted at Edwards Air Force Base in California, which has shut its doors to all non-essential […]
Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images As people with memories longer than those of Trump-worshiping Fox News commentators easily recall, President Donald Trump’s first take on the coronavirus was that, here in the United States, it was totally contained and not a big deal. The threat of it was even, sort of, a “hoax.” Then, once that position became politically untenable, especially in an election year, Trump made the […]
Tech 22:41 GMT 21.03.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107721/75/1077217536_11:0:2361:1322_1200x675_80_0_0_09c698827f1c3a5f8dbdf87a2eabfd9e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202003211078662066-russia-puts-34-oneweb-satellites-into-orbit/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia has successfully put 34 UK satellites for the OneWeb project into orbit, Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Russian space agency Roscosmos, said. “The second in 2020 launch of the @OneWeb satellites under the contract of @glavkosmosJSC with @Arianespace was a success: 34 @OneWebSatellit1 were separated from the upper stage in […]
2020 has been a bizarre year: not only did stocks finally crash after the longest and most artificial “bull market” in history, sending an entire generation of clueless traders who had never seen more than a 10% correction puking into their toilet paper-free bathrooms as the Fed finally ran out of ammo to artificially prop up markets, but the metaphorical demise of Dennis Gartman meant a […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday announced strict immigration curbs and a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Metro Manila, in a “lockdown” of the capital to stop the spread of coronavirus. The president approved a resolution allowing a raft of measures including bans on mass gatherings, a month of school closures and community quarantining, and threatened to jail local officials […]
The gun expert team at iconic arms maker Kalashnikov Concern has put a WWII-era RPD machinegun through a ‘full-auto’ nightmare, bringing the antique weapon to its demise in a new ‘Destroyers of Weapons’ video. The renowned arms producer has surely developed the taste for making literally hot internet content, adding its new video to its popular series. This time, the expert team obtained an RPD machinegun […]
2020 Democratic hopeful and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg does not eat the crust when enjoying a slice of pizza, or adhere to sanitary practices recommended amid the spread of coronavirus while doing so, a new video revealed. In a video posted by campaign staff to Bloomberg’s Instagram, the mayor is featured tearing a slice of pizza away from the crust, placing half of […]
Cuba’s official Communist Party newspaper Granma featured 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) comments praising some of the country’s social programs on its front page. Granma published a report on Sanders’ praise of “some of the social programs implemented by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro” on its front page and wrote that Sanders, who looks “unstoppable” for the nomination. “Sanders, today […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday condemned an Israeli decision to build 3,500 new settlement units in E1 area, stressing this would undermine security in the region, Al Watan Voice reported. According to Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the official spokesman of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, this decision comes in the context of the Israeli policies aiming to destabilise the region. Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the […]
Ghana has become one of the world’s largest dumping grounds for electronic waste, creating a deadly industry that has put thousands at risk of cancer and could result in a multi-generational health crisis. The electronics scrapyard near Ghana’s capital, Accra, has left the surrounding region contaminated with hazardous toxins that have polluted the environment and created serious health problems for residents. According to one estimate, around […]
For most of the past decade, Vietnam had benefited from China’s rising standard of living, higher wages, as companies seeking the lowest cost producer quietly but firmly transferred supply chains to originate out of China and into lower-cost locales such as Vietnam, whose devaluing currency (aptly named the dong) only helped boosting exports. Which is why it is painfully ironic that the same nation that indirectly […]
Above: Trident II D5 missile test-launched from the US ballistic missile submarine © Reuters / US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald Gutridge / Handout The US has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it’s to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a “Russian strategy” made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer. In a statement released earlier this […]