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18 April 2025

CHINA: Seized Digital Assets Fuel Local Budgets Despite National Ban

Chinese local governments quietly sold off seized crypto using private firms via offshore exchanges, converting proceeds into yuan despite a national trading ban.Over US$400M in assets were liquidated

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18 April 2025

US: Trump tariffs will send global trade into reverse this year, warns WTO

Donald Trump’s tariffs will send international trade into reverse this year, depressing global economic growth, the World Trade Organization has warned. In its latest snapshot of the global trading

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18 April 2025

AFRICA: Kenya Passes Revised Anti-Money Laundering Law After Grey Listing

The National Assembly has passed a revised anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing law in response to the country’s inclusion on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list.

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18 April 2025

TAX: OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework issues statement following plenary meeting

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS issued a statement on 11 April 2025, following its meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. The brief statement

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18 April 2025

GREEN FINANCE: BRICS Ministers Agree to Advance Environmental Cooperation

Joint statement signals the BRICS ministers’ intention to focus on collaborative solutions and best practices to address: plastic pollution and waste; desertification, land degradation, and drought;

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18 April 2025

PORTUGAL: Portugal Joins Italy in Restricting Second Passports

Portugal has become the latest European nation to propose restrictions on acquisition of citizenship. Italy recently announced severe limitations on recognition of citizenship via ancestry. Now, Portugal’s

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18 April 2025

EU: European Investment Bank sets example with EU Green Bond issuance

On 2 April, the European Investment Bank (EIB) priced €3 billion of green bonds that will mature in 2037. The issuance marks the largest transaction aligned with the European Green Bond Standard (EUGBS)

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18 April 2025

US: Trump team opts to keep US shell companies in the shadows

On March 21, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that U.S. shell companies and their owners can once again conceal their identities — a move critics warn could weaken national security and

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18 April 2025

US: US engaging on OECD global tax deal despite Donald Trump’s defiance

The US is engaging in efforts to negotiate a landmark global tax deal despite President Donald Trump’s criticism of the agreement, according to the OECD. Secretary-general Mathias Cormann told the

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18 April 2025

EU: EU VAT in the Digital Age Council in force

The Council of the European Union on 11 March 2025 adopted 3-pillar ViDA reforms’ legislative measures, and it entered into force 14th April. Read more details of each of the pillars: Jul 2030 Digital

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