The Monetary Authority of Singapore has launched a new grant fund to help financial firms test new forms of technology before deploying it live. Under the regtech grant scheme, an extension of the central bank’s…
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© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – Crude oil prices notched a sixth-weekly win Friday despite a sluggish end to the week as major oil producers attempt to reach a consensus on plans to ease…
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South Africa’s approach to its COVID-19 vaccine programme has been characterised by a large number of missteps. In aggregate it has left the country behind many others on the continent, and essentially left millions unvaccinated…
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Eight days ago, it rained over the western Pacific Ocean near Japan. There was nothing especially remarkable about this rain event, yet it made big waves twice. First, it disturbed the atmosphere in just the…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil was up Friday morning in Asia, retaining its gains from the previous session after a within the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC+) delayed…
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The Supreme Court tossed out a California law requiring nonprofits to report their major donors to state officials. In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the law, intended to fight fraud, subjected donors to potential…
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Clint Eastwood, star of ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ Financial markets are fixated on prospects for US inflation and Federal Reserve policy, and appropriately so. Rising interest rates may exacerbate already-elevated debt burdens…
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Four hundred years ago, on July 2 1621, a remarkable Englishman named Thomas Harriot died in London. He left behind some 8,000 pages of scientific research, but it is only in recent decades that scholars…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A woman walks over pipelines crisscrossing Ogoniland in Rivers State, Nigeria September 18, 2020. Picture taken September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde//File Photo By Libby George and Camillus Eboh LAGOS/ABUJA (Reuters) –…
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A Manhattan grand jury on July 1, 2021, indicted the Trump Organization and one of its top executives, Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, over his failure to pay taxes over 15 years. I’m a scholar…
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