(Reuters) – Global ratings agency S&P Global on Friday raised Ukraine’s foreign currency sovereign credit ratings, noting the country has completed a distressed debt restructuring. The long- and short-term foreign…
EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Stanton Street bridge intercepted $89,031 in unreported currency. “CBP officers routinely conduct outbound inspections on traffic headed into…
STERLING, Va. – With the cost of fuel and consumer goods at historic highs, holding onto one’s money is imperative. For international travelers, that’s as easy as truthfully reporting all…
By Sameer Manekar (Reuters) – Bearish bets on emerging Asian currencies eased on hopes that monetary tightening will cool red-hot inflation, with short bets on the Thai baht falling sharply…
SYDNEY – Australia’s central bank on Tuesday said it was launching a one-year research programme into the case for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Australia, focusing on what…
(This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine.) MOSCOW – Russia’s central bank will allow banks from designated “unfriendly countries” to…
LONDON – Central banks will have to make “fundamental” decisions on cross-border access for a digital version of their currency to serve as a means of payment effectively, a committee…
CONTACT: Barbara BurnsPHONE: (716) 843-5817FAX #: (716) 551-3051 BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Eric Iwu aka James, 32, a Nigerian citizen currently residing in Buffalo, NY, pleaded…
LONDON – Global rules would allow central bank digital currencies to operate smoothly cross-border and speed up wholesale payments, a think tank backed by the City of London Corporation said…
TAIPEI – Taiwan’s central bank is still working on its digital currency and while it’s unclear when the scheme could roll out to the public it will push ahead with…
By Mike Dolan LONDON – An upside down world of “reverse currency wars” is seeping into the real one. Devotees of Netflix hit “Stranger Things” know well how mayhem and…
HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s de-facto central bank bought HK$9.255 billion ($1.18 billion) from the market in New York trading hours to stop the local currency weakening and breaking its…
(Reuters) – Japan escalated its warnings on Friday against sharp falls in the yen, expressing “concern” over the moves in a rare joint statement by the government and the central…
HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on May 25, 2022, Dale Richard Estep II, age 35, of Colonial Beach, Virginia, was…
LONDON, Ky. – Investigators from the DEA Criminal Diversion Group, the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office, the Barbourville Police Department, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, and the Manchester Police Department arrested…
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK – U.S. companies are ramping up efforts to protect their profits from a relentless rally in the dollar, as the greenback surges to multi-decade…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s government on Saturday ordered banks to stop lending with immediate effect in a move Harare said was designed to stop speculation against the Zimbabwean dollar and was…
STERLING, Va. – The best way for travelers to keep their currency when traveling is to truthfully report all of it to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer…
ISTANBUL – A Turkish court on Friday acquitted 33 people, including two Bloomberg reporters and other journalists from local media, of spreading false information about the economy in an article…
By Steve Scherer and Julie Gordon OTTAWA – The front-runner to become the next leader of Canada’s opposition Conservatives said on Thursday he would ban the Bank of Canada from…
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. The weak-currency gang is growing in force. The yen plunged to a new two-decade low versus the dollar on…
BANGUI – Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin as an official currency, the presidency said on Wednesday, becoming the first country in Africa and only the second in the world…
CONCORD – A federal grand jury returned a 33-count superseding indictment on Monday charging Ian Freeman, 41, and Aria DiMezzo, 35, both of Keene, with a variety of financial and fraud crimes, United States…
HIDALGO, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge intercepted $114,294 in undeclared currency. “CBP officers conduct outbound enforcement operations to protect against…
INDIO, Calif. – El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested four United States citizens in two separate events attempting to smuggle narcotics further into the United States. The first incident…