El Salvador President Nayib Bukele denied on Friday that the country had transferred its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to a private operator as part of a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund. Bukele wrote on X that “the only thing that was transfer…
S&P downgraded Senegal's sovereign credit rating to “CC” on Friday and assigned a negative outlook, citing a debt restructuring plan linked to the country's $2…
The IMF said Thursday it had reached a preliminary deal with El Salvador that could unlock about $140 million in fresh funding under the country's austerity re…
British digital bank Revolut said Thursday it had won conditional approval for a US banking licence, moving it closer to launching as a national bank in the Un…
Federal Reserve Governor Chris Waller said he would be prepared to support an interest rate increase at the US central bank’s September 15-16 meeting if new da…
France sold benchmark 10-year government bonds at a 4.23 percent rate on Thursday, the highest auction rate since 2008. The rate on the monthly sale of OAT bo…
The Japanese yen rose more than 1% against the dollar on Thursday, strengthening to 158.12 per dollar by around 0700 GMT from 159.91 earlier. The move extended a rebound after the yen had been above 160 per dollar on Wednesday before a spike that fuelled spec…
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that US economic activity grew modestly from early July, but that high energy prices, policy issues and the Iran war were ad…
The US Treasury issued $1 coins featuring President Donald Trump's face on Wednesday, and the US Mint said the coins were "also in circulation". The coins wer…
India's central bank said banks raised $127.23 billion through a foreign currency deposit scheme as of August 31, after a campaign to draw on the savings of In…
Lebanon's central bank said an outside firm has begun a new forensic audit of selected past transactions linked to its foreign assets, as the country continues…
Canada's central bank held its benchmark interest rate at 2.25% on Wednesday for the seventh straight time, while warning that the trade war with the United St…
The Dutch central bank said it moved 86 tonnes of gold reserves from the United States and Canada to London, citing increasing geopolitical unrest and a need t…
Taiwanese investors are borrowing to buy stocks after an AI-linked rally lifted the island's market, bringing large gains for some traders and warnings from au…
Indonesia's parliament confirmed Destry Damayanti as central bank governor on Sept. 1, following Perry Warjiyo's resignation in July. Destry, a 62-year-old economist, had been acting chief since Perry left office. She was the only candidate after being nomina…
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said she did not discuss interest-rate increases with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after meeting him on the sidelines of the G20 finance meeting in North Carolina. Katayama spoke after Bessent publicly said he…