Support to the Orange-Senqu River Strategic Action Programme Implementation The Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM) secured funding from the Global Environment Fund (GEF) through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)  to implement a project that seeks to strengthen joint management capacity for the basin-wide Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) implementation, and demonstrating environmental and socioeconomic benefits...Read More

BBVA, the second-largest bank in Spain, with about $840 billion in assets, is poised to enter the cryptocurrency trading and custody space, according to two people familiar with the plans. The Spanish bank will begin its crypto offering out of Switzerland, said a source. Switzerland has relatively comprehensive rules around digital assets, set out by...Read More

U.S. Representative Maxine Waters, who chairs the powerful House Financial Services Committee, wants President-elect Joe Biden to rescind or monitor all of the cryptocurrency-related guidance issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). It also comes days after those same members introduced a bill that would require stablecoin issuers to seek bank...Read More

SPONSORED Capital Legacy, South Africa’s leading provider of wills, has been operating in the fiduciary and financial industries since 2012. Over the last eight years they have provided more than 300 000 clients with Wills and indemnified over R 70-billion in fees that arise during the estate administration process, which has aided them in gaining...Read More