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The U.S. policymakers believe that a digital dollar could have to preserve the primacy of their currency worldwide.The U.S. policymakers have recently been pushing the country to adopt a digital currency that is backed by the dollar. Led by the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin and Arkansas Republic Senator, Tom Cotton, they have been very vocal at the U.S. senate-house regarding the digital currency matter.Another important figure pushing for the same is the nominee for the Federal Reserve...

Ripple CEO Brad Gralinghouse has lashed out at Novogratz’s comment on XRP. Galinghouse said that so far in 2020, XRP has successfully managed to outperform Bitcoin. He also pointed out some of Novogratz’s failed predictions from the past.Ripple‘s XRP cryptocurrency remains in the news after it jumped 20% in the last seven days with a sudden volume surge. XRP, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency has been the talk of the town after its poor show in 2019.While almost all other top-ten...

Ripple Labs is currently involved in a serious legal battle, as we have already reported. However, it doesn’t prevent the company from being rather positive about its future. And there are some grounds for it.The World Economic Forum 2020 kicked-off yesterday, January 21, in Davos, Switzerland. As expected, global leaders met during the first day of the event with the U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaking on the transformation of the payments industry.Muchin said that the U.S....

Tomorrow, the business leaders and politicians from the globe are meeting at another session of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland.This is the 50th anniversary of the event with a theme: “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.” The annual economic gathering will run from January 21 until January 24.United Kindom Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Downing Street said on Monday. Johnson asserted that his...

As the demands for longer-dated, risk-free securities among institutional investors have always been high, the Treasury will start issuing 20-year bonds. Securities that offer some nominal yield, amid $11 trillion of global debt with negative rates. While Japanese officials are thinking about a much longer 50-year security, the U.S. officials turned this idea down in their announcement.“The 20-year bond fits more easily into the existing market structure. This is a way of taking advantage of...

Ripple, the company widely associated with XRP cryptocurrency, spent $170,000 in the first nine months of 2019 on the American government to shape crypto regulation in the world’s economic powerhouse. This is known from the information published by the Center for Responsive Politics.Data sourced by the Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization from the Senate Office of Public Records reveal that the cryptocurrency firm used the money to lobby the Executive Office of President Donald...