Author: Leslie Stewart

Shoppers browse fruit and vegetables on sale at an indoor market in Sheffield, England. The OECD recently predicted that the UK will experience the highest inflation this year among developed countries.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBritain’s inflation rate rose to 3.4% in December, higher than the 3.3% expected by economists polled by Reuters.Inflation fell sharply to 3.2% in the 12-month period ending in November, data that prompted the Bank of England to cut interest rates at its final meeting of the year last month.Core inflation, which excludes energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, stood at 3.2% in December, unchanged from November,…

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Posted by Senator Ihenyen, Lead Partner at Infusion Lawyers and currently Executive Chair of the Steering Committee of the Virtual Asset Service Providers Association (VASPA). As the first dust settles on the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Circular No. 26-1 outlining new minimum capital requirements for capital market operators (CMOs), a troubling picture is beginning to take shape. Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) are currently classified as CMOs, and a comparison with global digital asset regulatory regimes shows that Nigeria’s new minimum capital requirement of ₦2 billion (approximately $1.4 million) for Digital Asset Exchanges (DAX) is not only high,…

A longtime U.S. ally announced it had abandoned a massive prison in northeastern Syria housing thousands of Islamic State militants and their families.The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday that it had redeployed from al-Hol camp to a nearby city, citing “international apathy” as the reason for the withdrawal. The move comes amid escalating fighting between the SDF and fighters loyal to the Syrian government, and after reports of a ceasefire between the two sides. “This is due to international indifference to the issue of the terrorist organization ISIS and the failure of the international community to fulfill…

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news editorials. Stablecoins will soon become the internet’s native form of everyday money, and perhaps the most successful form of cryptocurrency adoption to date. Fast, global, programmable and one-click payments. No wonder it moved more in value than Visa in 2024. But they’re also privacy time bombs. summary Stablecoins are growing in scale as global money, but in their current form, which is public by default, financial lives are openly monitored, exposing individuals and businesses to profiling, exploitation, extortion,…

BEIJING, CHINA – JANUARY 6: People’s Bank of China (PBOC) building (January 6, 2025, Beijing, China). Visual China Group | Getty ImagesThe People’s Bank of China on Tuesday kept its lending prime rate unchanged as authorities focus on targeted support to specific sectors to support the slowing economy rather than broad policy easing. The People’s Bank of China kept its one-year and five-year loan prime rates unchanged at 3% and 3.5%, respectively, for the eighth consecutive month. The one-year rate affects most new and outstanding loans, while the five-year benchmark affects mortgages.The decision comes as the world’s second-largest economy lost…

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One of the most interesting matchups in college football history will take place Monday night at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium as the hometown Hurricanes take on the Indiana Hoosiers for the national championship (7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN and ESPN+).Led by coach Curt Cignetti and Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza, Indiana is 15-0 this season and looking to win the program’s first title. This is one of the biggest turnarounds in college football, as the Hoosiers entered this season with the most total losses in college football.Meanwhile, Miami (13-2), a former powerhouse, has won five championships. But the Hurricanes’ last…

Participants take part in a demonstration to show support for Greenland in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 17, 2026.Tom Little | ReutersEuropean countries are reportedly considering retaliatory tariffs and wide-ranging punitive economic countermeasures against the United States after President Donald Trump threatened to impose new export taxes and deepened rifts over Greenland.President Trump announced Saturday that eight European countries could raise tariffs starting at 10% on February 1 and rising to 25% on June 1 if Washington fails to reach a deal that would allow Denmark to acquire mineral-rich Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory.The proposed tariffs would target Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany,…

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news editorials. The world is moving towards full automation at breakneck speed. By the time you read this opinion piece, AI systems will be making countless financial decisions, routing vast amounts of data, and writing reams of code with minimal human oversight. But few people ask the question that should be the basis of any autonomous process: who or what validates the validators? summary Autonomy without validation is weak and inefficient. As AI systems take over financial, industrial, and…