Alibaba payment app: 700 million users Digital Yuan is mainstream Simon Sharwood Amsterdam, 19 May 2021– Alibaba’s controversial financial services arm, the Ant Group, has been welcomed into trials of China’s digital currency. China’s state-controlled media on Monday reported that the Alipay app has added a feature allowing transactions in the Digital Yuan. Alipay has…
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Crypto vs Phygital By Percival Jatobá * Amsterdam, May 5th 2021– With the accelerated conversion of the physical world with the digital one – phygital – it is natural and fascinating to follow the evolution of cryptocurrencies in recent years. The feeling is that the subject is multiplying, moving from the domain of experts in…
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Investors are still not keen on Opportunities For Investors and Start Up Capital Amsterdam, May 5, 2021 – A car powered by solar energy, so with solar panels on the roof, is still not for sale, but if it is up to a growing number of start-ups, that will soon change. Who are these players…
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Regulations keep the country on track Amsterdam, March 21st 2021– Brazil has been very [ extremely ] successful in attracting Research, Development & Innovation projects and centers to the country. ‘ Yes, we made a giant step into the 21st century ‘, a Dutch-Brazilian friend at the National Economic and Social Development Bank says. According…
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The 2020s are poised to be to energy firms what the 2010s were to utilities—disruptive As revolutionary slogans go, it hardly had the resonance of ¡No pasarán! But when Repsol, a Spanish oil company, said in December it would reduce the net carbon footprint of everything it produces to zero within 30 years, it marked the most powerful…
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Brasilia, Jan.2020–The Brazilian government authorized Bolivian oil and gas company YPFB to use the Gasbol pipeline to sell gas to other companies in Brazil beyond state-run oil firm Petrobras, according to a publication on Friday in the official gazette. Brazil’s Energy Ministry gave the green light to a request by a local subsidiary of YPFB…
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Official data showed that Brazil’s trade surplus shrank 20% to US$ 46.67 billion last year, as upwardly revised exports in recent months failed to mask a widespread slump in overseas demand for Brazilian goods over the course of 2019. According to Lucas Ferraz, trade secretary at the Economy Ministry, the upward revisions to exports in…
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This one is the interview that I could never quite lock down – until now. We’ve managed to cover almost every emerging and frontier market, but my attempts at featuring Brazil kept falling through. But when I sent out an announcement asking for interviews last year, I received over 200 responses, with quite a few from readers…
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