Just months before Silvergate Capital Corp. announced that it was winding down, banking’s first casualty from the crypto industry’s implosion, a company called Block.one was boosting its investment.
Standard Bank Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest lender by assets, is ready to re-capitalize its Ghanaian unit after making provisions to cover more than half of its holdings in the nation’s debt.
Greater transparency on emissions could also bring more scrutiny
After three straight winters, the weather-roiling La Nina has come to an end.
Higher interest rates and quantitative tightening may add to the risk of another financial market shock, according to the Bank of England’s executive director for financial stability.
The UK will delay some parts of its flagship high-speed rail line to reduce the bill on a project that has been estimated to cost more than £100 billion ($119 billion.)
A top aide to jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny announced he will take a break from his work at the Anti-Corruption Foundation and apologized for writing a letter to the European Union asking for sanctions on billionaire Mikhail Fridman and his partners to be lifted.
Football rules aimed at encouraging locally trained young talent may be unfairly allowing top clubs to snap up the best talent in their region, an adviser to the European Union’s top court warned.
Another European aluminum smelter is closing, in a fresh sign of the damage wrought by an energy crisis that’s hammered the region’s industrial economy and crimped supplies of critical raw materials.
Turkey’s top court overturned a block on the leading pro-Kurdish party’s access to government aid, in a boost to an opposition group that could be kingmaker in this year’s elections.
