The U.S. government has said crypto exchanges shouldn’t facilitate transactions for individuals or entities that have been recently added to a sanctions list, including some...
In today’s top Europe, Middle East, and Africa news, Switzerland put neutrality on hold and froze all of Russia’s assets due to the invasion of...
If the President Joe Biden administration gets its way, the latest economic sanction against Russia for invading Ukraine will be a disruption of its cryptocurrency...
War is waged with tanks, bullets and air attacks — and also with banks as battlefields, interest rates as weapons of economic mass destruction. A...
It’s hard to argue that the case for bitcoin as a store of value that, like gold, provides a hedge against inflation has been badly...
Aside from dealing with banking sanctions from United States, European Union and British leaders, Russia’s financial services were further handicapped when the National Bank of...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine is now unfolding. More than 5,500 miles away, the United States is ratcheting up sanctions aimed at punishing Russia for its...
The Biden administration is putting new sanctions on Russia over the current Ukraine conflict, trying to cut off foreign capital, The New York Times wrote...
In times of war — or of armed conflicts that are wars in all but name — payments can be weaponized (after a fashion). Or,...