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31 Oct 23
Tech firms face new safety regulations and anti-fraud measures, and bias prevention laws target the US public sector
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26 Sep 23
The US government’s triple-A credit rating could be threatened by a government shutdown, analysts warned amid a Congressional impasse.
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20 Sep 23
Spain’s July general election left the country in a state of uncertainty.
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1 Sep 23
Better understanding the scale and character of corruption will allow the world to push forward with eradicating it and spending that would-be-lost money on development, a senior figure at the United...
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21 Apr 23
The Australian government has announced major reform of the country’s central bank after criticism over its handling of inflation led to them carrying out a review.
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17 Apr 23
A group of major economies has promised to expedite the transition to cleaner energy in a bid to meet targets to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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4 Apr 23
Social unrest caused by controversial judicial reforms could knock off more than half of the Israeli economy’s growth in the coming years, the nation’s central bank has warned.
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31 Mar 23
Staff cuts under former president Donald Trump’s leadership have hurt the US Treasury’s ability to oversee financial markets and the banking sector, the department’s top official has said.
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2 Mar 23
Setting an organisation’s culture affects transparency as well as the way ideas are challenged.
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21 Feb 23
Public disagreement between Israeli politicians and the country’s central bank have led to the finance minister speaking out against “populist” threats to the bank’s independence.
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14 Oct 22
Across the globe, democratic countries are suffering a crisis of trust in government. So does this mark an inexorable drift, or are there signs of hope that governments can turn the tide?
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7 Jun 22
Digital technologies have opened a new front in the war against money laundering.
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31 May 22
Is a hardening of governments’ approaches to money laundering anything more than cosmetic?
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19 May 22
The Nigerian anti-corruption agency has arrested the country’s accountant general during an investigation into fraud and money laundering.
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13 May 22
Canada’s prime minister has defended the independence of the country’s central bank after the leadership frontrunner for the main opposition party promised to fire the bank’s governor if elected.
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11 May 22
Sri Lanka’s central bank governor will resign in two weeks’ time unless political stability can be restored, he told a press conference after the prime minister was forced to quit amid protests.
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28 Apr 22
The Central African Republic has become the second country to make the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender, following El Salvador’s move last year that faced criticism from global institutions.
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28 Apr 22
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party is reportedly looking to sell or close some of its state-owned enterprises after they were “destroyed” by a decade of corruption.
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4 Apr 22
Sri Lanka’s finance minister and central bank governor have resigned amid countrywide demonstrations angry at a deepening economic crisis.
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25 Mar 22
Authorities in Florida are working out how to accept tax payments in cryptocurrency, the governor of the US state has said.
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24 Mar 22
The president of El Salvador has insisted his government will issue a planned bitcoin-backed bond, initially set for last week, after a “short delay”.
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16 Mar 22
Hidden risks threaten public sector balance sheets because of policies introduced in response to the pandemic and its economic impact, a World Bank report has warned.
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4 Mar 22
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine continues to have stark economic and financial consequences that are being felt around the world.
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2 Mar 22
A Court of Justice Decision to allow the European Union to withhold money from countries that fail to meet democratic standards has been named as a threat to Hungary and Poland.
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22 Feb 22
Governance structures are key to the success of commercial ventures set up by local governments around the world.