The Federal Reserve announced last week that it will give Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange, a master account that allows the company to connect to the central bank’s Fedwire service, which was seen as the latest example of the U.S. government’s push to integrate these crypto exchanges into an ecosystem normally reserved for traditional banking institutions.
Staffers at CNN are concerned about the prospects of working under David Ellison, the son of Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire, who is close to overseeing the network as part of his growing media empire that already controls CBS News.
Balendra ‘Balen’ Shah, a 35-year-old rapper who is the head of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), is set to become Nepal’s next prime minister after early vote counting indicates that he is on pace for a landslide win in the country that faced violent protests last year, led by the disenfranchised youth in the country.