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Bitcoin is dominant, but it has an onboarding problem.
Its primary issue of attracting adoption is nurtured by an industry filled with opaqueness, scams, and a few puzzling design trade-offs - ones that seem inane to conventional monetary theorists and mainstream users.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Nordic region’s six major banks announced the creation of a customer checking center on Friday, with the initiative expected to help their efforts to crack down on money launderers and recover from a scandal that has damaged the sector’s reputation.
Danske Bank undertook an internal probe into a whistleblower who exposed the Danish lender’s €200bn money-laundering scandal in an attempt to “discredit” him and “blackmail him into silence”, his lawyer has claimed.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that blacklisted al Qaeda and Islamic State terrorists and their supporters are able to tap their bank accounts despite a U.N. asset freeze.
The Russian Ministry of Finance will not issue any special regulations for Facebook’s upcoming digital currency Libra, deputy minister Alexei Moisseev said Monday.
Eleven people have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering after a police operation in Belfast.
Six properties were searched across the city on Monday and six men and five women arrested.
Nordea’s chief executive is to leave by the end of next year, the Nordic region’s biggest bank has announced, months after it replaced its chairman amid an activist campaign, a money-laundering scandal in the region and lacklustre financial results.
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran said Friday’s meeting in Vienna between the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal was the “last chance” to save the accord after the U.S. withdrawal last year and warned Tehran would not accept “artificial” solutions to U.S. sanctions.