Ukraine Financial News
03.03 / 21:27
03.03 / 21:17
Accenture
Accenture to shut 2,300-strong Russia business over Ukraine invasion
Professional services firm Accenture is closing its Russia business in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
03.03 / 20:47
BlackRock
index
BlackRock halts purchase of Russian equities across active and index funds
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, said it stopped trading Russian securities across its funds earlier this week.
03.03 / 20:21
Ethereum
Action
Bitcoin
Shiba Inu can rally, yes, but the ‘Dogecoin-killer’ needs to ‘shed’ this
Shiba Inu’s price is struggling to climb like other altcoins as it is being weighed down. According to on-chain metrics, the threat of a potential sell-off is strong, and this weight needs to be shed before SHIB, the “Dogecoin killer,” can move higher.
03.03 / 20:21
Has Uniswap’s help to Ukraine solved this major problem
Perhaps like nothing else before it, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has proved why interoperability in crypto is the need of the hour. As supporters send coins to Ukraine’s administration and pro-military NGOs, government officials found themselves on the receiving end of diverse crypto-assets – including NFTs.
03.03 / 19:47
Refugees
EU countries agree to trigger a never-used law to host Ukrainian refugees
Faced with the greatest human exodus since the end of World War II, the European Union has agreed to trigger a never-before-used directive to grant temporary protection for Ukrainians fleeing the military aggression waged by Russian forces.
03.03 / 19:25
Kuna
Bitcoin
Ukraine’s war effort draws in bitcoin and a crypto exchange
The founder of Ukraine’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Kuna, has been sleeping only a few hours a day since Russia invaded his country.
03.03 / 19:25
UPS
Target
Action
rate hikes
interest rate hikes
Cleveland Fed President Mester says Ukraine war accelerates the need for interest rate hikes
War in Ukraine only heightens the need for higher interest rates to get inflation under control, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said Thursday.
03.03 / 19:25
markets
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Price
Support
Bitcoin heads for $42K support as stocks pullback nudges BTC price lower
Bitcoin (BTC) broke through $43,000 after the March 3 Wall Street open with U.S. equities trending down.
03.03 / 19:07
COST
Citi
Provident
Citigroup
Citi to give emergency pay and aid to Ukraine staff as many flee to Poland
Citigroup has helped many of its 200 Ukraine-based employees with their evacuation to Poland in the wake of Russia's invasion and continued attacks on the country, Financial News can reveal.
03.03 / 18:55
privacy
Media
Ukraine war
Bitcoin
Umbrel Bitcoin Node Runners Now Help to Bypass Internet Censorship
Users running Umbrel Bitcoin (BTC) and Lightning nodes can now also help others to bypass internet censorship by installing the Snowflake proxy app on their nodes. It might help censored journalists and other people to access the free and open internet safely.
03.03 / 18:53
03.03 / 17:53
Remark
Reserve
committee
Watch Federal Reserve Chair Powell speak live on policy before Senate committee
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03.03 / 17:11
cryptocurrency
Central Bank
Bitcoin
Lawyer
Cut Central Bank out of Russian Crypto Regulation Picture, Urges Lawyer as Ukraine War Rages On
The time has come to fast-track crypto mining regulation, a leading Russian lawyer has advised – even if this means removing the Central Bank from the equation.
03.03 / 16:53
BLOCK
SEC
exit
SEC holds talks with fund managers facing Russia exit troubles
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created a conundrum for US investment firms, pressuring them to unload Russian securities when the country’s stock market is closed and foreigners are blocked from selling shares there.
03.03 / 16:35
business
cryptocurrency
Binance
NOT
Crypto exchange Binance says will not accept cards of sanctioned Russian banks
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance on Thursday said cardholders of sanctioned Russian banks would not be able to use them on their platform and confirmed that sanctioned individuals have had their access restricted.
03.03 / 16:35
regulation
Donations
Ukraine cancels token airdrop, reveals new NFT plans
The vice prime minister of Ukraine informed the public on Wednesday that they have decided to cancel the airdrop for crypto donors that was announced on Tuesday and plans to raise more money through the sale of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) instead.
03.03 / 16:35
Investments
Interest rates
Bitcoin
analyst
Bitcoin a 'good bet' if Fed continues easing to avoid a recession — analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) has the potential to become a "good bet" for investors if the Federal Reserve does everything it can to keep the U.S. economy afloat against impending recession risks, according to popular analyst Bitcoin Jack.
03.03 / 16:31
Cardano
Bitcoin
Drop
Top cryptocurrency Prices Today: Bitcoin, Avalanche, Ethereum, Shiba Inu drop up to 6%
Bitcoin took a breather as investors booked profits, after the US Fed's chair Powell testified before the US Congress. Altcoins followed suit. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reaffirmed the US central bank's plan to raise interest rates this month for the first time since 2018. On the other hand, the saga in Eastern Europe continued. All of the top digital tokens were trading lower on Thursday. Avalanche tumbled as much as 6 per cent, whereas Cardano and Shiba Inu dropped 3 per cent each. Bitcoin and Ethereum also shed a per cent each.
03.03 / 16:03
NFT
Non-fungible tokens
Airdrop
Ukraine Cancels Crypto Airdrop, Says It Plans to Issue NFTs Instead
Ukraine has canceled a much-talked-about "airdrop" to people who have donated crypto to the country, with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that support Ukraine’s Armed Forces now being planned instead, the country’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, said on Twitter.
03.03 / 15:43
Donations
Bitcoin
Support
Anti-war Russians start donating crypto to support Ukraine
While the West is growing increasingly concerned over Russia’s potential use of cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions, some Russians are using their Bitcoin (BTC) to help Ukrainian people.
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