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Chinese Foreign Exchange Reserves At 6-Year Low

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China’s foreign exchange reserves have slipped below the $3 trillion mark, as measured in January. The new numbers show continued momentum to “move money out” even as the central bank seeks to “contain asset bubbles without triggering a liquidity crunch” with capital seeking investments outside the country, said the WSJ.

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UK Losing Foreign Exchange Market To Asia

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s share of the foreign exchange market has dropped, while the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) reported that Asia, particularly Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, are picking up the pieces. Here are the numbers: $2.4 s share of the global currencies trading market, according to FT — down from 41 percent in 2013.

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Bitcoin Daily: COVID-19 Credentials Initiative Works On Certificate; Digital Currency Exchange Blackmoon Crypto To Shutter

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Traffic on Russia’s digital currency exchanges jumped more than 5.5 Qrator Labs, for its part, connected the rising figures with heightened interest in the currency markets. The organization also noted large growth in denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) events on digital currency exchanges.

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PwC: The race to digital money is on

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Digital money will be the future, said PwC recently when releasing its 2022 PwC Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Global Index. It’s estimated that more than 80% of central banks are considering launching a central bank digital currency,” the company noted in a statement.

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Bitcoin Daily: BlockFi Suffered ?Temporary Data Breach?; Celo Milestone Enables Celo Gold Transfers

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BlockFi said it was “able to confirm that no funds, passwords, social security numbers, tax identification numbers, passports, licenses, bank account information, nor similar non-public identification information was exposed as a result of this incident.”.

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Bank Of America Automates FX Conversion For Smaller FIs

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Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA Merrill) is introducing a new solution for other financial institutions (FIs) in the interbank payment system to automate foreign exchange (FX) conversion. The solution is supported across 89 countries and can make conversion in 41 currencies, the bank noted.

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Bitcoin Daily: Ukraine Arrests Hacker In Country?s Largest Theft of Crypto Wallets, Info; Iran Requires Crypto Exchanges To Be Licensed

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BlockFi said it was “able to confirm that no funds, passwords, social security numbers, tax identification numbers, passports, licenses, bank account information, nor similar non-public identification information was exposed as a result of this incident.”.