Yves here. Remember Libra, Facebook’s planned entry into the cryptocurrency game? Facebook grandiosely threw a bunch of fintech gimmicks like blockchain and stablecoin and super low cost international transfers into a bag and acted like it would add up to a g…
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Digital Money: Implications for Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Exclusive: Bank of Portugal scrutinises Isabel dos Santos’ Eurobic
By Sergio Goncalves
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s central bank is carrying out an inspection of small local lender Eurobic, in which Angolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos is the main shareholder, to assess its procedures against mon…
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2020 Property Rules and Regulations: Potential Impacts On Landlords and Agencies
Policy changes either set or in motion are likely to continue as planned, with some changes and … [+] additions to be made as described in the incumbents housing pledges during the election and as offered in the Queens Speech last month.
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‘War on Terror to Continue Until We Get to Its Roots’
New Delhi (Sputnik): Indias first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat has called out all countries sponsoring terrorism and asked the international community to hold them accountable.
Participating in the annual multilateral Raisina Dialogue-202…
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Westpac accused of 23 million money-laundering breaches, including child abuse transactions
Westpac has been accused by a powerful regulator of breaching Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance laws 23 million times, including failing to properly vet thousands of transactions that could be linked to child exploitation and liv…
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Security and public order consultative council to be set up
A security and public order consultative council (MKKKA) is in the process of being set up to improve the management of current issues related to security threats, said Minister of Home Affairs Muhyiddin Yassin.
Muhyiddin said the MKKKA would comprise commun…
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British Envoy to Pakistan Claims ‘It is Clear Terrorist Groups Operate from Within’ the Country
New Delhi (Sputnik): India and several other Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries have repeatedly accused Islamabad of failing to take action against UN-designated terrorists, pointing out that its anti-terror law still remains out of sync with…
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Exclusive: Bank of Portugal scrutinises Isabel dos Santos’ Eurobic
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s central bank is carrying out an inspection of small local lender Eurobic, in which Angolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos is the main shareholder, to assess its procedures against money laundering, Eurobi…
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“Absolutely Clear That Terror Groups Operate From Pakistan”: UK
Pakistan has to take non-reversible action against terrorism: UK’s Gareth Bayley said.
New Delhi: Underlining that terror groups are active in Pakistan, the United Kingdom on Thursday said that Islamabad should do more to take “non-reversible” action against…
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Westpac linked to paedophilia case
Australian media is reporting that Westpac has been linked to a global paedophilia case, following the arrest of a sex offender.
The Sydney Morning Herald today reported the offender is suspected of having used the bank’s transfer system to pay for live-str…
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