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Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Changpeng Zhao has stepped down from his role after pleading guilty to breaking US anti-money laundering laws. As part of the deal, Zhao is not allowed to take on a management position in the company for the next three years, as per reports. Thus, in his announcement on social media site X, formerly Twitter, Zhao announced that Richard Teng, Binance's global head of regional markets, will take over as CEO.

₹324.67 crore from anchor investors, a day before the opening of its initial public offering (IPO) on Tuesday, November 21. The company listed the names of the 22 investors who took part in the anchor book in a regulatory filing.

Fedbank Financial Services (Fedfina) has raised 324.6 crore from 22 anchor investors by allotting 23.2 million shares at the upper price band of 140 per equity share ahead of its IPO.

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Tuesday named a new CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange he founded, after pleading guilty to federal money laundering charges and stepping down as the company's chief.

Founder and former CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, announced his replacement today as the Department of Justice held a press conference announcing significant cryptocurrency enforcement actions against his company.

Singapore-based Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a global frontrunner in the cryptocurrency mining industry, has released its unaudited operational metrics for October 2023, showcasing sustained robust performance and strategic advancements. Throughout the month of October, both the hash rate and the electrical capacity remained stable, which was praised by the CEO Linghui Kong. He brought out the fact that the Gedu Datacenter in Bhutan had contributed 3.3EH/s to the overall hash rate as well as 211 Bitcoins, which accounted for more than half of the entire Bitcoin production for the month. The ongoing construction of the Tydal Datacenter in Norway, which is anticipated to be completed in the year 2025, serves as an instance of the company's devotion to the advancement of technology as well as the rise in shareholder value.

In a move to enhance cross-border payments, Cambodia’s Bakong digital currency system, a component of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese payment provider Alipay, Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Post recently reported.

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Indian tourists visited Singapore in October, up from 81,014 in the preceding month, according to a media report on Tuesday. India was rated as a third tourist-generating market for Singapore, overtaking Malaysia and Australia. «A total of 94,332 Indian tourists visited Singapore in October, up from 81,014 in the preceding month.

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One of Russia’s biggest banks says international crypto exchanges such as OKX, Bybit, and Bitstamp are “cooperating with Russian arbitration managers” in bankruptcy investigations.

wages increase by 7.2% on average in 2022 compared with 7% for women, according to a new report. Globally, the paycheque increase was 6.7% on average for men compared with 6% for women, says the ‘ADP Research Institute's People at Work 2023: A Global Workforce View’ report. The report, based on a survey of more than 32,000 workers across 17 countries, shows that the gender pay gap in India was lower than the global average. It says male and female workers in India expect their pay cheques to increase at the same rate-- 8%--over the next 12 months. Some 63% of the Indian survey participants expressed confidence in their company's advancement toward achieving gender pay equality over the last three years. This surpasses countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, with Australia at 34%, China at 51% and Singapore at 31%. While men received slightly higher pay raises last year, they are still more inclined than women to express dissatisfaction with their compensation.

Worldcoin digital token from a project co-founded by Sam Altman has been among the most volatile in crypto recently as the saga over his OpenAI ouster and potential reinstatement transfixes the business world. The token began sliding Thursday from a peak of $2.48 as digital-asset markets retreated, a drop that was exacerbated by Altman’s firing on Friday. Worldcoin eventually hit a low of $1.84 in the hours after his exit, CoinGecko data shows. Worldcoin, also known as WLD, has since rallied 18% in 24 hours to retake the $2.40 level amid efforts by a group of OpenAI executives and investors to reinstate Altman as chief executive officer. The token has a market value of about $280 million, ranking it 157th in the crypto market, according to CoinGecko as of 8:51 a.m. in Singapore on Monday. “It’s all driven by Altman news flow and concerns over his ouster at OpenAI,” said Richard Galvin, co-founder at Digital Asset Capital Management. The token “rallied back as it became clearer there was no key negative event that drove the board’s move,” he said.

Northern Minerals executive chairman Nick Curtis is being targeted by Chinese interests accused of a covert attempt to gain control of the strategically important rare earths player.

₹643.26 crore from anchor investors including Goldman Sachs, ahead of the launch of its initial public offering (IPO). IREDA IPO opens for subscription on Tuesday, November 21, and will close on Thursday, November 23.

The bakong, a digital currency operated by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), will provide users with access to the Alipay merchant network and enable cross-border transactions on Alipay+ using QR codes under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed at the FinTech Expo in Singapore, the local press reported.

Crypto media platform CoinDesk has been acquired by crypto exchange Bullish on Nov. 20 for an undisclosed sum, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Stock market today: NSE SME stock One Point One Solutions' share price gained on Monday, hitting a record high of ₹47.50 apiece. The stock was locked in the 20 percent upper circuit. The stock has been gaining consistently for nearly 15 days as it has risen from around ₹32 apiece to ₹47.50 apiece in the last two weeks, up around 50 percent during this period.

rules of origin for the medical devices sector remains a sticking-point in the proposed free-trade agreement (FTA) between India and the UK and the talks are on to iron out the differences, an official said. Huge potential is there in the medical devices sector in India, as it imports about 80 per cent of its requirement, with the US, Germany, China, Singapore and Netherlands being top exporters of such devices to the country. «In the medical devices sector, a lot of issues related to rules of origin are still there. Demand for customs duty concessions is also there,» the official said, adding negotiations are going on between the two countries to resolve the differences in both goods and services sectors. The government has taken steps to promote domestic manufacturing of medical devices/equipment and attract large investment in the sector.

London/Singapore | Airlines are struggling to convince investors to back the travel recovery despite reporting booming profits and splurging tens of billions of dollars on new planes.

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