Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado was the latest foreign leader to enter the Oval Office with a golden gift on Thursday.
U.S. President Donald Trump was happy to take her Nobel Peace… [+8798 chars]

Countries that have relied on traditional diplomacy to deal with the Trump administration have had less success than countries that have found ways to directly enrich the Trump family and those close to them.

CBC News

Countries have gotten results after enriching the Trumps. Could Canada do the same?

A sharp fault line is forming across the digital asset industry between crypto products that increasingly resemble regulated financial institutions and a traditional banking sector warning that some … [+5231 chars]

JPMorgan warns on yield-bearing stablecoins as Morgan Stanley ETF filings and crypto-native lending signal rising tension between banks and digital assets.

Cointelegraph

Crypto’s bank-like turn puts JPMorgan on edge

January 16Trump pardoned former Gov. Wanda Vázquez of Puerto Rico, Julio Herrera Velutini, the banker she accepted bribes from, and at least one other co-conspirator involved with her case, after Her… [+11776 chars]

Trump pardoned a banker convicted of bribing the former Puerto Rican governor after his daughter gave $3.5 million to the president’s super PAC.

Forbes

Trump’s Pardon List: Puerto Rico Governor’s Co-Conspirator Latest Big-Time Donor Sprung Free By President

Cryptocurrency markets posted a broad recovery this week, led by gains in major coins, even as investor attention remained focused on the uncertainty of pending US crypto legislation.
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Bitcoin breached the $95,000 mark this week amid a wider market recovery, as investors digested regulatory delays to the much-awaited CLARITY Act in the US.

Bitcoin rallies, ETF flows rebound as US crypto policy stalls: Finance Redefined

Three Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have published an open letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins regarding the lack of crypto enforcement actio… [+4534 chars]

“Given the industry’s history of investor-harm... this turn raises troubling questions about the SEC’s priorities and effectiveness."

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