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The £78bn cumulative tax rises announced by the chancellor in today’s budget risk being wiped out by the £112bn worth of losses the Bank of England due to its active …
Budget tax rises to be overshadowed by Bank of England bond sales and losses Read More
In just over a month, the crypto market has lost $1.2 trillion in value. The steady declines since mid-October have erased much of the gains received by both small and …
Crypto market crash hits Trump family, wiping out $1 billion of their fortune Read More
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet approved a 21.3 trillion yen ($135.4 billion) stimulus package Friday to help spur the economy through expansionary government spending and to relieve the impact of …
Japan OKs $135 billion stimulus package to help revive its sluggish economy Read More
A global money-laundering watchdog has taken South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique and Burkina Faso off its “grey list” of countries subjected to increased monitoring. The Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF), …
Four African countries taken off global money-laundering ‘grey list’ Read More
The Government is being urged to urgently ‘close the loopholes’ which could allow hostile states and malicious actors to donate to political parties via untraceable cryptocurrencies. Reform UK became the first …
Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It’s ‘Impossible to Trace’ Foreign Cash Read More
Argentina’s markets have tumbled, with the peso currency at a historic low, after a heavy defeat for President Javier Milei’s party at the hands of the Peronist opposition at local elections stoked …
Argentine markets plunge after Milei’s party loses in Buenos Aires vote Read More
South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon has pleaded guilty to fraud in the United States in a case tied to the $40bn collapse of the TerraUSD and Luna tokens. Kwon, …
South Korean crypto mogul Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud Read More
During an interview one of us (Ricardo Soares de Oliveira) carried out in 2017, an African high net-worth individual said he was told by an executive whose business had long …
‘Come meet us in Dubai’: the new offshoring of grand corruption Read More
What determines who holds power in the boardrooms of Germany’s biggest companies? Is it performance? Or do factors such as social background play a bigger role? The sociologist Michael Hartmann, an emeritus professor …
Germany’s business elite and the illusion of meritocracy Read More
Campaigners have called for a legal loophole to be closed which potentially allows foreign donations to flow into UK parties via cryptocurrencies. In a new warning from the non-profit watchdog Spotlight on Corruption, researchers …
Cryptocurrency Loophole Could Allow Foreign Billionaires to Secretly Bankroll UK Political Parties Read More