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Truss faces new perils as restless MPs return to Westminster

Bloomberg The return of Parliament this week is fraught with danger for UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. In her first month in office, the 47-year-old premier managed to roil the financial markets, alienate a swath of her lawmakers and sink the Conservative Party in the polls with the biggest set of unfunded tax cuts in half a century. Since the ...

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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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