Bloomberg Thailand will bar the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payments for goods and services, saying the wider use of digital assets threatens the nation’s financial system and economy. Business operators — including crypto exchanges — must not provide such payment services, and are barred from acting in a manner that promotes the use of digital assets to …

  Bloomberg BNP Paribas is stopping all new business in Russia, joining European peers in winding down their local operations after the country invaded Ukraine. The Paris-based bank has informed its corporate clients that its local unit will no longer be able to process their transactions from the end of March, the bank said in an emailed statement. BNP Paribas …

  Bloomberg Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda doubled down on his commitment to continue with stimulus even if inflation continues to accelerate, in a rebuttal of the need to join a global wave of central banks normalising policy. “We don’t know what April’s inflation rate may be, but there’s a possibility it’ll be around 2%,” Kuroda said, acknowledging …