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Jul 22
Central Bank Governor visits Tipperary to meet businesses and students

Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Gabriel Makhlouf met with businesses and students from Tipperary yesterday during his day-long visit.  Governor Makhlouf met with local entrepreneurs, staff and Government agencies at Tipperary Technology Park, where conversations included the importance of local digital hubs and local economic development in a hybrid working world recovering from […]

Jul 22
Recurrent property taxes may help to reduce house price volatility

Central Bank Economic Letter finds that recurrent property taxes can, over time, help to mitigate downside risks to house prices. Such taxes may also provide a stable source of revenue for government, as they are less likely to be affected by the economic cycle. Revenue from recurrent property taxes, as a proportion of national income, […]

Jul 22
Central Bank highlights weaknesses in Virtual Asset Service Providers’ AML/CFT Frameworks

Central Bank seeks to anticipate and support innovation in the financial services industry Firms in novel areas must ensure their businesses will not be used to launder the proceeds of crime or to finance terrorism Central Bank issues a bulletin to virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to assist them in strengthening their applications and frameworks […]

Jul 22
Compass Mining to add 25,000 ASIC miners just weeks after staff cuts

Mere weeks after announcing staff lay-offs and salary cuts, Compass Mining has unveiled expansion plans in the form of a 75 megawatt (MW) hosting partnership with Compute North for its data center in Granbury, Texas. The announcement on July 21 comes only a two weeks after the company retrenched 15% of its employees and implemented […]

Jul 22
U.S. stocks close at 6-week highs as Nasdaq-led winning streak extends to 3rd day

U.S. stocks closed sharply higher on Thursday as the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite led all three benchmarks to their highest levels in six weeks. Strong earnings from S&P 500 companies — particularly heavy-hitting tech stocks like Netflix Inc. NFLX, +3.44% and Tesla Inc. TSLA, +9.78% — have helped to bolster sentiment, prompting wary investors to jump […]

Jul 22
Large institutions sold $5.5B in BTC since May — and we’re still here

Since May 10, as much as 236,237 Bitcoin (worth $5.452 billion) has been sold by “large institutions” — mostly as a result of forced selling.  A Twitter thread from Arcane Research analyst Vetle Lunde details how and when many institutional Bitcoin holders began selling their stacks. Lunde stated that “it all started with Do Kwon.” […]