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BIS paper: DLT opens possibility of ‘embedded supervision’

BIS paper: DLT opens possibility of ‘embedded supervision’

Distributed ledger data would be useful for supervision, but must be trustworthy, author says by : Source link

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Exxon calls for carbon price, working on CCS projects across Asia By Reuters

Exxon calls for carbon price, working on CCS projects across Asia By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An Exxon gas station is seen in Houston, Texas, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott (Corrects Houston project is being proposed, not built, in paragraph 2) By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters)…

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How to turn confrontation about Africa’s biggest hydropower dam to cooperation

How to turn confrontation about Africa’s biggest hydropower dam to cooperation

Since Ethiopia announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, there have been disagreements between Egypt and Ethiopia on the filling and operation of the dam. With turbines of about 5100…

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Facebook wants AI to find your keys and understand your conversations

Facebook wants AI to find your keys and understand your conversations

Facebook has announced a research project that aims to push the “frontier of first-person perception”, and in the process help you remember where your left your keys. The Ego4D project provides a huge collection of…

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Afghan women lawyers on the run face life in limbo abroad By Reuters

Afghan women lawyers on the run face life in limbo abroad By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Afghan women walk down a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 16, 2021. Picture taken on September 16, 2021. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo 2/2 By Karolina Tagaris…

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Why Boris Johnson’s plans for a ‘high-wage economy’ require a major shift in the way British business works

Why Boris Johnson’s plans for a ‘high-wage economy’ require a major shift in the way British business works

Boris Johnson has declared that his government plans to build a “high-skill, high-wage” economy across the UK. But it will not be an easy thing to deliver. Indeed, the initial response from some business leaders…

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Microsoft’s rise and fall points to one thing — don’t fix what isn’t broken

Microsoft’s rise and fall points to one thing — don’t fix what isn’t broken

Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a greater market share…

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IMFC backs new trust to channel resources to vulnerable economies

IMFC backs new trust to channel resources to vulnerable economies

The International Monetary and Financial Committee says it backs a proposed trust that would allow the International Monetary Fund to channel resources to a wider range of needy countries. The IMFC – one of the…

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Energy & Precious Metals – Weekly Review and Calendar Ahead By Investing.com

Energy & Precious Metals – Weekly Review and Calendar Ahead By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — One of the most insulting epithets hurled at investing professionals is where they are likened to blindfolded monkeys throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages to select portfolios…

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buying a football club can still be lucrative – with the right business tactics

buying a football club can still be lucrative – with the right business tactics

Many Newcastle United fans cheered the announcement on October 7 that their club had finally been sold for £305 million. The sale, to a consortium headed up by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, adds to…

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