The company - backed by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, DST Global and Unbound - has been granted a licence by the Securities and Futures Commission
 
The legendary financier, speaking at the World Economic Forum, said the Chinese leader had made a series of mistakes which could cost him significant influence
 
The war in Ukraine has aggravated a global food crisis that is causing economic shockwaves around the world and could last for years, expert tells UN Security Council
 
Tech, industrial stocks pulled shares lower as Beijing imposed new Covid curbs and analysts downgraded their forecasts
 
Calls for reduced reliance on the dollar system and boosting the yuan to become a robust, globally-traded reserve currency come in the wake of deteriorating relations with the West
 
Exchange-traded funds and foreign mutual funds that invest in Chinese yuan bonds saw a record outflow – of $2.3 billion – in the week to May 18, according to Refinitiv Lipper data
 
President Biden said he was thinking about dropping some of Trump’s China tariffs, which boosted sentiment but Covid and inflation still cast a shadow
 
 
 
 
 
India’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
 
US tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
 
Despite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
 
The Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.