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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Department of Justice Settles with Las Vegas Casino for $130 Million

The settlement is the latest example of the agency’s enhanced criminal enforcement of money transmitting business and international money-laundering laws. The recent settlement is significant both in terms of its amount...more

The Volkov Law Group

China’s Digital Yuan: What to Know About the First Major Central Bank Digital Currency

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With the rise of digital currencies, it was inevitably going to attract the attention of governments.  Not just in the regulatory sense, but also in terms of utilization.  The blockchain technology underlying these virtual...more

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China’s Digital Currency and What This Could Mean For Foreign Companies and Financial Institutions in China

China is operating increasingly on a cashless basis. In 2020, cashless transactions amounted to US$49 trillion, accounting for every four out of five payment transactions. The Chinese government has now taken a large leap in...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.9.2019 | Top Story: Chair Powell says Fed will Expand its Treasury Securities Holdings

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Fed Chair Powell, speaking at an economics conference in Denver yesterday, made news by indicating that the central bank would “once again begin expanding its portfolio of government-backed securities”—a shift in policy...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.13.2019 | Top Story: ECB Cuts Rates and Restarts QE in Effort to Preempt European Downturn

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The ECB was even more aggressive than expected in its moves to “head off a downturn before it gained momentum,” cutting a key interest rate and reviving “a money-printing program.” At the same time, the central bank “issued...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Quite a start to the week for consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co., with a Times expose on the questionable relationship between McKinsey’s clients and the investments its hedge fund has made in those same clients, not to...more

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More on yesterday’s news of a split power-generation division at GE, including why fixing the ailing business is such an important task for new CEO Larry Culp and what federal criminal and civil accounting probes mean for the...more

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The Times’ tech guru—Farhad Manjoo—gets all indignant regarding the Equifax breach. Namely, if Equifax can’t handle its one job of safeguarding personal info, should it really be allowed to keep going at all now?...more

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