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US to screen air travellers for Ebola

  Bloomberg The US will begin redirecting travellers from Uganda to five airports to screen for Ebola, as the East African country grapples with an outbreak of a strain of virus for which there is no approved vaccine. The notice is not a travel ban or suspension on those coming from Uganda, but is being put in place out of …

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India plans phased central bank digital rupee launch

  Bloomberg India’s central bank is working towards a phased introduction of a digital currency and will put forth a final design after it has conducted large scale pilot projects. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is exploring the option of implementation of an account-based central bank digital currency or CBDC for the wholesale segment and token-based currency for the retail …

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UBS dropped from $3.4bn Texas muni deal in latest blow

Bloomberg UBS Group AG’s underwriting arm has been left out of the group that is poised to handle the biggest-ever municipal-bond transaction from Texas after the state listed the bank as one of the firms it considers to “boycott” the fossil-fuel industry. Board members of the issuer, the Texas Natural Gas Securitisation Finance Corp., announced a newly configured underwriting syndicate …

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