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Singapore wants to lead on cryptocurrency

Singapore may have set its sights on becoming the world’s cryptocurrency capital. But its “buyer beware” approach to trading in risky digital assets doesn’t mean anything goes. A coin that works as a pension plan for BTS, the world’s most-famous K-pop group, is perhaps beyond the pale. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which had earlier allowed Bitget, a popular ...

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ESG defies Wall Street’s efforts to package it well

Wall Street is trying to bottle ESG, but ESG has other ideas. Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds based on environmental, social and governance attributes have gathered a lot of money recently. They took in $51 billion in 2020, $3 billion more than during the previous 11 years combined, according to Morningstar. This year’s flows are even bigger, $56 billion through ...

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Biden-Putin call gets underway with tensions high over Ukraine

Bloomberg President Joe Biden began a high-stakes call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to reports from Interfax and Tass, seeking to ease tensions that have spiked over Russia’s massing of troops along the border with Ukraine and fears of a possible invasion. Putin and Biden began their video call around 10 am Washington time on Tuesday, according to the ...

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