Bloomberg Flowdesk, a French cryptocurrency trading technology firm backed by Ledger and Coinbase Ventures, plans to more than double its workforce and expand overseas even as the wider digital asset sector reels from last year’s selloff. The company intends to grow its team to 140 employees from 60 by the end of March, with staff distributed across locations in ...

  Bloomberg Mexico and Peru are forecast to extend their biggest-ever series of interest rate rises as they struggle to contain a rebound in price gains. In Mexico, the central bank’s inflation goals have been hampered by soaring food costs, while Peru’s policymakers are trying to keep the economy stable amid the mass unrest which has paralysed swathes of the ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of Canada (BOC) wants to reinvigorate its interest-rate setting process, bringing an outside voice to the table next month amid a broader effort to bolster its credibility. HEC Montréal economics professor Nicolas Vincent will become the first “non-executive” member of the central bank’s six-person governing council ahead of its March 8 decision. He is set to ...