This chapter covers a cryptocurrency exchange that is allowing its customers to hold assets with independent banks to meet customer demand for increased security.
Binance has bowed to pressure from customers who want to hold their assets with an independent custodian, a Hong Kong court has ordered property giant China Evergrande to be wound up, and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is returning to an old but controversial playbook to jump-start the country’s economy.
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