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View More NewsOn the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Committee to Protect Journalists, together with press freedom and human rights organizations, calls on all parties to the conflict and the de facto authorities in Yemen to immediately end the use of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention against journalists and media workers, and to urgently disclose the fate of journalist Waheed al-Sufi, whose fate remains unknown. Al-Sufi, editor-in-chief of Al-Arabiya, an independent Yemeni newspaper and website, was abducted in April 2015 from Sanaa, which is under the control of the powerful Houthi rebel group. He has not since been…
The Bank for International Settlements is renewing its criticism of stablecoins, questioning their credibility as everyday money as governments worldwide build regulatory frameworks around the tokens.BIS General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos, a candidate to succeed European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde next year, argued that stablecoins do not credibly function as a means of payment at scale. He said tokenized bank deposits offer a stronger alternative, Reuters reported on Friday.“Tokenised deposits offer a more direct path to harness tokenisation while preserving the monetary system’s foundations,” de Cos said.The comments come as regulators worldwide grapple with stablecoin adoption, while a…
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