On Jan. 22, Lisa Kruse, commissioner of the North Dakota Department of Financial Institution Group, told members of the House Committee on Industry, Commerce and Labor that the state's residents filed 103 complaints of cryptocurrency scams with the FBI, resulting in a total of $6.50 million in losses in 2023. The FBI reported in September that Americans lost $5.60 billion to cryptocurrency fraud in 2023 and recorded 5,500 cases involving cryptocurrency ATMs with losses exceeding $189 million.
On January 22, the People's Bank of China, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Administration of Financial Supervision, the China Securities Supervision Commission and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange jointly issued opinions to align international high standards and promote institutional opening up in the pilot free trade zone (Hong Kong) where conditions permit. Among them, it is proposed to support the development of cross-border digital identity authentication and electronic ident...
January 21st, January 20th to 21st, the National Foreign Investment Cooperation and Foreign Aid Implementation Work Conference was held in Beijing. Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative for International Trade Negotiations Ling Ri attended the meeting and made a work report. The meeting emphasized that in 2025, promote international cooperation in the industrial chain supply chain, improve the overseas comprehensive service system, improve the foreign investment management system, ...
On January 21, Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative for International Trade Negotiations Ling Zhi presided over a roundtable meeting of European enterprises to listen to suggestions on the issues of European enterprises in China. Representatives from the Ministry of Finance, the State Food and Drug Administration and other departments attended the meeting. Ling Zhi said that China-EU economic and trade cooperation has a solid foundation, with deep integration of production and sup...
According to 8marketcap data, or due to the impact of the official website of the US government's Department of Efficiency, DOGE quickly rose 49 places in the global asset market value ranking, touching about 58.84 billion US dollars, a 24-hour increase of 5.18%, currently surpassing Porsche and grey release Bitcoin ETF ranking 384th.
According to X user @retardmode, the official X account of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs may have promoted CUBA, a token issued by pumpfun, after being hacked. The original post has now been deleted.
On January 18th, Sheng Qiuping, a member of the Party Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, led a team to investigate the Xilongduo store of Beijing Yonghui Supermarket. Sheng Qiuping highly affirmed the adjustment of Yonghui Supermarket. He said that the adjustment of Yonghui Supermarket has returned to the essence of retail, providing consumers with genuine, high-quality and high-priced goods and services.
On January 15, the Chinese side took note of the announcement issued by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to further tighten export controls on some semiconductor manufacturing equipment and software, and expressed its high concern to the Dutch side in this regard. The semiconductor industry is a highly globalized field. Recently, some countries have repeatedly generalized the concept of national security and abused export controls, seriously threatening the stability of the global semicondu...
On January 14, according to ajunews, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea (MOFA) jointly issued a statement on its official website with the United States and Japan to explain North Korea's alleged involvement in cryptocurrency theft and emphasize the importance of public-private sector cooperation. According to the tripartite organization, North Korea stole about $660 million of cryptocurrency in 2024. These include $308 million stolen from DMM Bitcoin, $50 million stolen from Upbit, ...
Luo Zhuojian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a consulting expert of the Ministry of Finance, issued a document calling for the active development of stablecoins to protect the advantages of Hong Kong's financial center. He pointed out that Hong Kong can cooperate with Financial Institution Groups in other regions in the application of stablecoins to explore its potential in international settlement and cross-border application mod...
The Department of Justice announced money laundering charges against three Russian citizens for running U.S.-sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing services Blender and Sinbad, which were allegedly used by North Korean hackers to hide cryptocurrency proceeds from cybertheft. Two of the gang members were arrested last month, but the last one remains at large. Brent S. Wible, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, said the encryption mixers were used by state-sponsored hackers.
Kenya is preparing legislation to legalize cryptocurrencies, Kenya's Cabinet Minister of Finance John Mbadi said on Friday, marking a major shift in the government's stance. Cryptocurrencies are banned in Kenya, but are still widely used underground by the public to circumvent restrictions. "The emergence and development of virtual assets and virtual asset service providers has brought innovation and dynamic opportunities and challenges to the local and international financial system," Mbadi sai...
On January 10, 2025, the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China's 7-year (renewal) government bond weighted win the bidding yield 1.5339%, the marginal win the bidding yield 1.5568%, and the bid multiple 3.34. The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China's 2-year (renewal) government bond weighted win the bidding yield 1.1626%, the marginal win the bidding yield 1.2157%, and the bid multiple 3.79.
According to the Beijing Business Daily, the Ministry of Public Security reported at a press conference held on January 10 that by the end of 2024, more than 53,000 Chinese alleged offenders involved in telecommunications fraud in northern Myanmar had been arrested and successfully destroyed the "four major families" criminal groups in northern Myanmar. The Ministry of Public Security pointed out that although the crackdown has been effective, the crime situation is still severe. Fraud groups ar...
South Korea's Ministry of Personnel Management has asked all government entities to reassess the implementation of restrictions on cryptocurrency holdings by government officials. Agencies must review their compliance and submit reports by Jan. 31. The ministry specifically emphasized that not only institutions dealing with virtual asset policies, drafting and enforcing regulations, but also those involved in promoting economic and industrial policies may be subject to restrictions on access to ...