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25 March 2025

SOUTH KOREA: South Korea Sees 52.6% Surge in Crypto Investors, With Older Generations Leading the Charge

A new study on South Korea reveals a significant surge in domestic cryptocurrency ownership, with over 9.6 million investors by the end of last year. Older South Koreans Increasingly Keen on CryptoA

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25 March 2025

EU: EU Platform on Sustainable Finance Proposes New Standard to Help SMEs Access Financing for Sustainability Efforts

The Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), an expert group mandated by the European Commission to advise it on the development of sustainable finance policies, announced the publication of a new report,

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25 March 2025

BARBADOS: Barbados Calls Out Broken Climate Finance System

Patrick McCaskie, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Investment, says the current global system is failing to solve the climate and development crisis. This failure is hurting

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25 March 2025

HONG KONG: Financial Secretary Emphasizes Urgency of Climate Action at Hong Kong Climate Forum 2025

Following is the speech by the Financial Secretary, Mr Paul Chan, at the 2025 Hong Kong Climate Forum today (March 25): Professor Gong Peng (Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Development)

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25 March 2025

US: Trump administration selling 1,000 ‘Gold Card’ visas daily

The US is selling 1,000 “Gold Card’ visas daily under a controversial program introduced by President Donald Trump, which offers a direct path to citizenship for individuals willing to invest

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25 March 2025

CRYPTO: IMF now officially tracks Bitcoin in cross-border finance — just weeks after warning El Salvador to scale back

IMF wakes up to cryptoOn Mar. 20, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published the seventh edition of its Balance of Payments Manual (BPM7), marking the first time cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have

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21 March 2025

NEW ZEALAND: Government proposes tweaks to the Foreign Investments Funds tax regime to keep wealthy migrants in New Zealand

The Government is committing to tweaking controversial tax rules to encourage wealthy foreigners to stay in New Zealand. It is proposing to make an initial change to the Foreign Investment Fund (FIF)

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21 March 2025

US: IRS Criminal Investigators Face Competing Priorities Under Trump

A new presidential administration brings new priorities. President Donald Trump is shifting tax enforcement away from the typical small-business owner and more toward dismantling criminal organizations

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21 March 2025

EU: Proposal of the EU platform on sustainable finance

In effect since March 2021, the Sustainability Financial Disclosure Regulation – Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (SFDR) – introduced transparency in the market for sustainable investment products as part

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21 March 2025

US: Trump’s USAid cuts will have huge impact on global climate finance, data shows

Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US overseas aid will almost decimate global climate finance from the developed world, data shows, with potentially devastating impacts on vulnerable nations. The US was

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