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An executive order from US President Joe Biden gave the green light to block the transfer indefinitely, Reuters reports.

Myanmar activists called out the real estate developer for ties to the nation’s military, which seized power in a coup.

Lebanon’s troubled currency hit a new record low on the black market on Tuesday as the country’s myriad crises deepen.

Historically low mortgage rates in the US spurred a pandemic housing boom, which the rising cost of borrowing may cool.

Fed systems executing millions of transactions a day went down Wednesday due to what seemed to be an internal glitch.

An ‘operational error resulted in disruption of service’ in Fed systems that process trillions of dollars in payments.

Banks posted $147.9bn in profits in 2020, a significant drop from record 2019 levels, a regulatory group said Tuesday.

Recovery for the world’s largest economy remains ‘uneven and far from complete’, Fed’s Jerome Powell tells Congress.

The five-year plan would see the fund creating 1.8 million direct and indirect jobs, said Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Europe’s biggest bank is paring back its global ambitions and refocusing its efforts on Asia.

A United States federal judge ruled that the bank is not entitled to the $893m it wired to Revlon’s lenders by mistake.

Activist group says Myanmar military controls $5.7bn in foreign currency reserves, facilitating ‘brutal’ repression.

Financial tech firms are buying Indonesian lenders to tap into the country’s huge potential demand for banking services.

BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and ING have announced plans to exclude the problematic export from their trading activities.