Virtual singer Luo Tianyi performing with world renowned pianist Lang Lang in 2019 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China. Launched in 2012, Luo Tianyi has nearly 3 million fans and even performed at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing this year. Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — From customer service to
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The FTX logo on a laptop screen. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it seized $3.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency from collapsed crypto exchange FTX. In a media release late Thursday, the watchdog confirmed the total sum taken from FTX’s Bahamian subsidiary, FTX Digital Markets, and added
The FTX logo on a laptop screen. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images Japanese FTX users will be able to start moving their funds out of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange starting in February, according to a statement from the company’s Japan subsidiary. FTX Japan said Thursday it was developing a system to resume withdrawals
In this article BTC.CM= ETH.CM= DOGE.CM= SOL.CM= FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Solana logo displayed on a phone screen and representation of cryptocurrencies are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 21, 2021. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Solana was touted as the cryptocurrency that would challenge
The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Following a record-smashing tech IPO year in 2021 that featured the debuts of electric car maker Rivian, restaurant software company Toast, cloud software vendors GitLab and HashiCorp and stock-trading app Robinhood, 2022 has been a complete dud. The only notable tech offering
In this article FTT.CM= DAVE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves following his arraignment in New York City on December 22, 2022. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images Of the billions of dollars in customer deposits that disappeared from FTX in a flash, $200 million was used to fund
Singapore’s goods and services tax will be raised to 8% in January 2023. Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty Images Come Jan. 1, Singapore will raise its goods and services tax, otherwise known as the GST, from 7% to 8%. It’s the first of two scheduled hikes of the GST, with the second slated to
In this article BAC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The 2008 financial crisis had a devastating impact on Bank of America. Shares of the bank were trading for as low as $2.53 in 2009 and net income dropped from a high of $21 billion in 2006, to just $4 billion in 2008. “Bank of
The “microfinance” industry — long touted as a way to help poor, rural communities in developing countries — is pushing tens of thousands of farming families into debt traps as they attempt to adapt to a changing climate, according to a report. The study, conducted by researchers at a group of U.K. universities, looked at
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is escorted by corrections officers to the Magistrate’s Court on December 21, 2022 in Nassau, Bahamas. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Sam Bankman-Fried is flying Wednesday night to New York, according to the office of the attorney general of the Bahamas, where he is later expected to be arraigned in U.S.