There is a need to ease regulation for the fintech sector in India for promoting financial inclusion, a lawyer has said while observing that ban on technologies like cryptocurrencies will push them to develop outside the country.
While regulations are critic…
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Need to ease norms for fintech sector in India, says a lawyer
WEF 2020: Norms for fintech sector need to be eased, says advocate Pratibha Jain
There is a need to ease regulation for the fintech sector in India for promoting financial inclusion, a lawyer has said while observing that ban on technologies like cryptocurrencies will push them to develop outside the country. While regulations are critica…
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Pakistan may be out of FAFT’s ‘grey list’ next month due to active support from ‘all-weather friend’ China; Beijing praises Islamabad’s efforts to counter terror financing
New Delhi: Pakistan may be out of the ‘Grey List’ of the international terror financing watchdog FATF next month due to the active support of China and tactical support of some Western countries, an official said on Thursday.
At a meeting of the Financial Ac…
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Robust diplomatic efforts urged to get Pakistan off FATF grey list
ISLAMABAD: Hoping for a positive outcome of its performance-based review by a joint group, Pakistani authorities would need robust diplomatic efforts to get Pakistan off the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) next month.
A large 18-member d…
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UK to develop a system to track cryptocurrencies
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of the UK Government has submitted a tender for the development of a system for monitoring financial transfers in digital money. The appearance of such a system in Russia could already have occurred.Cryptocurrencies can be used n…
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US ‘ready to assist’ Pakistan: Wells
US diplomat says Washington is continuing to urge the Indian government to move swiftly to release [Kashmiri] political leaders detained without charge. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI.: A senior aide of US President Donald Trump has acknowledged Pakistans efforts for …
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IRGC Threat in the Middle East: How Safe Are Americans in Turkey?
IRGC Threat in the Middle East: How Safe Are Americans in Turkey?
Mahmut Cengiz
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corpse (IRGC) Quds Force General Qassim Soleimani had been killed in a drone strike by the United States on January 3, 2019, ostensibly because he wa…
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World financial intelligence group re-admits Vatican after suspension
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican has been fully re-admitted to the Egmont Group of world financial intelligence units after a suspension two months ago sparked by an investigation into the purchase of luxury London real estate.
Carmel…
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China urges world to recognise Pakistan’s counterterrorism financing efforts
BEIJING: Expressing satisfaction over visible progress made by Pakistan to strengthen its domestic counterterrorism financing system, China on Thursday said that Islamabads political will and active efforts ought to be recognised and encouraged by the interna…
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Iran Needs To Do More To Combat Terrorist Financing
Irans economy minister, Farhad Dejpasand, has called on the multilateral Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to discipline the US over its use of budget funds to finance the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad airport.
The FATF which claims t…
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