Spanish lender BBVA is advising its wealth clients to invest 3%-7% of their portfolios in cryptocurrencies, an executive of the Spanish bank said on Tuesday. The bank’s head of digital and blockchain solutions Philippe Meyer told the DigiAssets conference in London that it started advising clients on bitcoin BTC in September last year, according to…
ATHENS: Greece has repatriated 105 of its citizens and foreign nationals from Israel, the foreign ministry said Wednesday, as the Iran-Israel conflict raged. “The people repatriated were transported to Athens from Sharm El-Sheikh, in Egypt, onboard C-130 and C-27 Greek air force planes,“ it said in a statement. Along with Greek citizens and their families,…
NEW YORK: Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees in an unsuccessful bid to poach the ChatGPT maker’s talent and strengthen its own generative AI teams, the startup’s CEO, Sam Altman, has said. Facebook’s parent company — a competitor of OpenAI — also offered “giant” annual salaries exceeding $100 million to OpenAI staffers, Altman…
STRASBOURG: The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Wednesday that Russia does not “stand a chance” against NATO, but the alliance needs to “stick together” in the face of a belligerent Moscow. Speaking ahead of a NATO summit in the Netherlands with alliance members under US pressure to massively ramp up military budgets, Kallas warned…
BOGOTÁ: Colombia’s Senate has approved contested labor reforms, after leftist President Gustavo Petro decreed a referendum to get public approval for the bill. Senators voted 57-31 to approve the reform bill on Tuesday, which will end the working day at 6:00 pm instead of 9:00 pm, extend social security to some informal workers and create…
MOSCOW: The families of Russian diplomats have left Israel, Russia’s ambassador to Tel Aviv Anatoly Viktorov said on Wednesday, as Israel and Iran traded fire for a sixth day. “Almost all the wives and children of embassy employees” left on Tuesday via Egypt “to return to their homeland,“ Viktorov said, interviewed by pro-Kremlin presenter Vladimir…
BEIJING: Almost 800 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from Iran since Israel launched military strikes against the country last week, Beijing said Wednesday. “Currently… 791 Chinese nationals have been relocated from Iran to safe areas,“ foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a regular news conference. “More than 1,000 other people are in the process…
TEHRAN: Iran said Wednesday it had detained five suspected agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency on charges of tarnishing the country’s image online, Iranian news agencies reported. “These mercenaries sought to sow fear among the public and tarnish the image of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran through their calculated activities online,“…
Ethereum (ETH) has experienced a notable pullback after a brief period of upward momentum earlier this month. The asset, which surged past the $2,800 level in mid-June, has since declined by 8.7% over the past week, now trading at around $2,498. This retreat follows broader market consolidation, as Ethereum struggles to maintain upward pressure despite…
Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, has suffered a major security breach, resulting in the loss of approximately $48.65 million in USDT on the Tron network. The incident was initially revealed by on-chain cryptocurrency investigator ZachXBT, who flagged suspicious activity involving several wallets associated with Nobitex. Suspicious Nobitex transactions. Source: ZachXBT According to his analysis, the…
