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Xinhua backs strict regulations on virtual currency trading
Xinhua News Agency, mouthpiece of the China Communist Party, has published an editorial piece calling for the toughening of regulations on the trading of virtual currencies.
According to the existing regulatory policy, any direct transaction of any virtual currencies on any kinds of digital token financing platform is forbidden, nor are the intermediaries who conduct brokered transactions allowed.
However, social media platforms such as WeChat and QQ chat group have become major information sources for underground trading of virtual currencies. Buyers can easily use Alipay to transfer money to purchase virtual currency from peer to peer.
Yang Dong, director of the China Financial Technology and Internet Security Research Centre at the Renmin University, is quoted in the editorial as saying that it is necessary to strengthen monitoring of trading accounts and foreign exchange, to effect deeper penetration of the regulations.
Yang also urges the consideration of setting up a blacklist system, to blacklist operators of trading platforms, irrespective of nationality, limiting their future activities in relevant financial businesses.
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The Importance of E-Wallets for Online Gaming Sites
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Thai Government to issue Bt50 bln ( $1.57 bln)Savings Bonds to fund COVID-19 Relief Measures
The special savings bonds are available via the “Sasom Bond Mung Kung” e-wallet, abbreviated to “Sor Bor Mor” in Thai on Krungthai Bank’s Pao Tang mobile app, and through four dealer banks. The minimum purchase of these bonds is 1,000 baht, without no maximum. Interest is paid twice a year.
BANGKOK (NNT) – Thailand’s Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) plans to issue “Ying Aom Ying Dai” (the more you save, the more you earn) government savings bonds, worth 50 billion baht, next month, aiming to use the funds to finance state projects to ease the impacts of the pandemic.
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