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As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) continues its effort to advance the technologies behind central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), some members of the crypto community have reacted strongly against the IMF's efforts to further the initiative. In a CBDC policy roundtable on June 19, the IMF’s director of the monetary and
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Zimbabwe seeks to use gold-backed crypto tokens to salvage the country’s economic situation. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has dammed any potential consequences by selling 14 billion Zimbabwean dollars ($39 million) worth of gold-backed digital tokens. That is despite an earlier warning it received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) not
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The government of Argentina, which is currently applying dollar exchange controls, has added two new dollar exchange rates into its arsenal: the “Qatar” and “Coldplay” dollars. However, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made declarations against these measures, stating they are not a substitute for
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Because the U.S. dollar is the world’s reserve currency, the Federal Reserve is by default “the central banker to the world,” Bove argues, which means that if the Fed tightens, all other major central banks must follow suit if they want their country’s currency to remain on the same level
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A top International Monetary Fund official called for international regulation of digital finance, predicting "the adoption of digital finance, from cryptocurrencies to stablecoins and central bank digital currencies" following the unprecedented sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Original Source
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The U.S. stock market slightly declined as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a statement. The IMF hinted policymakers may not be accurately assessing economic data after the pandemic. With a drop in consumer spending, exports, and business productivity, policymakers have lots of data to process. The U.S. stock
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