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Ishaq Dar vows to make banking system in accordance with Islamic teachings

Ishaq Dar

He said switching over banking system was big challenge He resolved to make Pakistan an economic power He also lambasted the previous government. ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar has expressed the government’s resolve to make all out efforts to transform banking system in accordance with the Islamic teachings and injunctions. Virtually addressing the ‘National … Read more

Russia to improve crypto transaction monitoring as regulation draws closer

Russia

Rosfinmonitoring is employing software to watch cryptocurrency transactions. The Bank of Russia has long expressed doubt about cryptocurrencies and financial stability. Regulators are concerned that a crash could affect the larger banking system. As Moscow introduces laws on what one lawmaker labelled “cryptomania,” Rosfinmonitoring, Russia’s financial monitoring agency, said on Friday that it was employing … Read more

Bank deposits fall over Rs1tr in January

SBP

KARACHI: The deposits of the banking system have dropped over Rs1 trillion in January 2022 after declining from a record high of around Rs21 trillion in December 2021, according to the data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The total deposits of the banking system fell to Rs19.95 trillion by the end of … Read more

China’s central bank injects liquidity into market in January

China's central bank

BEIJING – China’s central bank said Monday that it pumped cash into the money market in January to meet the liquidity demand from financial institutions. A total of 700 billion yuan (about 110 billion U.S. dollars) was injected into the market via the medium-term lending facility (MLF) last month to maintain liquidity in the banking … Read more

Deposits surge 17% to Rs20.51t by September 2021

Deposits surge

The banking deposits surged 17 per cent to Rs20.51 trillion by the quarter ended September 30, 2021, compared with Rs17.54 trillion in the same quarter of the last year, according to a report released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Tuesday. Similarly, the total assets of the banking system climbed up 21 per … Read more

Fitch hits Turkish banks with rating cuts as new finance minister takes reigns

Turkish banks

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the outlooks of more than 20 Turkish banks just weeks after Ankara appointed a new finance minister, Arab News reported. Nureddin Nebati was appointed treasury and finance minister on December 2 by President Erdogan and has taken the reigns of an ailing economy marred by a tanking currency. Fitch said on Friday: “The … Read more

S&P lowers Turkey outlook to negative, citing ‘rising risks’

Turkey

WASHINGTON: S&P Global Ratings on Friday changed its outlook for Turkey’s credit rating to negative from stable, as the country struggles with high inflation and a depreciating currency. Turkey’s annual inflation has surged above 20 per cent to its highest level in three years after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan installed loyalists at the central bank who … Read more

Afghan banking system on brink of collapse: UNDP

UNDP

UNITED NATIONS: A UN agency has warned that Afghanistan’s banking system is on the verge of collapse because of consumers’ inability to repay loans, fewer deposits, and other liquidity problems, leading to a social crisis in an already fragile economy. “Afghanistan’s financial and bank payment systems are in disarray. The bank-run problem must be resolved … Read more

Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer condemns Cryptocurrency

Jackson Palmer

Jackson Palmer, the co-creator of Dogecoin, has criticized the cryptocurrency sector, calling it ‘inherently right-wing’, ‘hyper-capitalistic’ technology.

He slammed Bitcoin in a series of tweets. The Dogecoin co-founder wrote, “After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight, and artificially enforced scarcity”.

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He says that the Bitcoin industry profits from a network of unethical business relationships “new money from the financially desperate and naive”.

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Palmer responded by saying that the cryptocurrency sector is dominated by a powerful cartel of wealthy individuals who, over time, have evolved to include many of the same institutions as the centralized banking system they were supposed to supplant.

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“Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today’s capitalist system (eg. corruption, fraud, inequality) and using software to technically limit the use of interventions (eg. audits, regulation, taxation) which serve as protections or safety nets for the average person,” the co-creator of Dogecoin stated.

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Palmer, the co-founder of Dogecoin, also stated that he would never return to the cryptocurrency market. Palmer said, “I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency” or begin regularly sharing my thoughts on the topic again. My answer is a wholehearted ‘no'”.

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ADB, ACAMS join hands to detect terror financing

ADB, ACAMS join hands to detect terror financing

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) are partnering in the pilot rollout of an internationally accredited online training program to boost anti-money laundering and know-your-client (AML/KYC) capacities of ADB’s Trade Finance Program (TFP) partner banks. “Enhancing the banking system’s ability to detect money laundering and terrorist financing … Read more