Trade Facilitation

The United States slapped on Thursday sanctions on over a dozen companies, individuals and vessels, including three from India, for facilitating illicit trade and UAV transfers on behalf of the Iranian military.

In over-the-counter (OTC) crypto trading, agencies or individuals carry out transactions on behalf of the traders, off the books of the exchanges. As part of traditional financial practices, OTC trading of regular assets have been facilitated by banks for years. The services now include OTC crypto trading, which is being facilitated by some exchang...

India is now the best-performing nation amongst all the countries of South Asian region in terms of trade facilitation, as per the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacfic's (UNESCAP) report.

India and New Zealand on Thursday decided to increase cooperation in areas such as facilitation of UPI system, timely resolution of trade issues, work visa, and improving the banking relations. Looking at the present quantum of bilateral trade between the two countries, both sides acknowledged the huge potential and the need for bringing in synergy...

Russia's Gazprombank has expanded its links with banks in India to expedite trade between the two countries in national currencies, a key executive told Reuters on Monday,

Twitter will now let users engage with crypto and stock trading from within the platform itself. To facilitate this, Twitter has partnered up with eToro, an Israeli online brokerage firm. Given his personal pro-crypto approach, billionaire Elon Musk has been very vocal about making Twitter crypto friendly with newer features.

SushiSwap, an automated market maker (AMM) DEX, that uses a liquidity pool to facilitate trades, has reportedly undergone an exploit attack over the weekend. Researchers have claimed that SushiSwap users who engaged with the protocol between April 4 and April 9 were most likely to have been affected as part of this attack.

In a significant move, India and the US on Thursday decided to launch a strategic trade dialogue to address export controls, explore ways of enhancing high technology commerce, and facilitate technology transfers.

India and the European Union on Monday announced setting up of a new Trade and Technology Council (TTC) that is expected to facilitate exchange of critical technologies relating to an array of domains.

The Swedish regulators have approved Binance Nordics AB to facilitate the management and trading of virtual currencies for its nationals. Crypto investors in Sweden will now have options to purchase digital assets in Euros and utilise Binance Visa card as well as Binance NFT services.

India will soon start trading with Russia in rupees as top lender State Bank of India has agreed to facilitate the new mechanism, the president of India's exporter group said on Wednesday.

BlackRock investment management corporation has teamed-up with Coinbase to enable institutional investors to trade and manage Bitcoin. BlackRock clients will be able to use its Aladdin investment-management system to oversee their exposure to Bitcoin and facilitate financing and trading on Coinbase. The crypto exchange’s shares surged 15 percent ...

Upgrading labour laws, simplifying taxation and creating a stable tariff environment are imperatives to facilitate a larger trade between India and the world, a new report said.

The Department of Consumer Affairs said in a statement on Thursday that it has set up a committee to develop comprehensive framework on Right to Repair. The objective of the proposed framework will be to empower consumers, harmonise trade between the original equipment manufacturers and the third-party buyers and sellers, and reduction in e-waste.

A group of four lawmakers have proposed to being NFT trading platforms under the legal scanner to curb their exploitation by notorious entities. Since NFTs are valuable digital assets and are usually purchased in exchange of cryptocurrencies, they can be exploited as an instrument to facilitate instant cross-border financial transactions. Hence, th...

The United States slapped on Thursday sanctions on over a dozen companies, individuals and vessels, including three from India, for facilitating illicit trade and UAV transfers on behalf of the Iranian military.

In over-the-counter (OTC) crypto trading, agencies or individuals carry out transactions on behalf of the traders, off the books of the exchanges. As part of traditional financial practices, OTC trading of regular assets have been facilitated by banks for years. The services now include OTC crypto trading, which is being facilitated by some exchang...

India is now the best-performing nation amongst all the countries of South Asian region in terms of trade facilitation, as per the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacfic's (UNESCAP) report.

India and New Zealand on Thursday decided to increase cooperation in areas such as facilitation of UPI system, timely resolution of trade issues, work visa, and improving the banking relations. Looking at the present quantum of bilateral trade between the two countries, both sides acknowledged the huge potential and the need for bringing in synergy...

Russia's Gazprombank has expanded its links with banks in India to expedite trade between the two countries in national currencies, a key executive told Reuters on Monday,

Twitter will now let users engage with crypto and stock trading from within the platform itself. To facilitate this, Twitter has partnered up with eToro, an Israeli online brokerage firm. Given his personal pro-crypto approach, billionaire Elon Musk has been very vocal about making Twitter crypto friendly with newer features.

SushiSwap, an automated market maker (AMM) DEX, that uses a liquidity pool to facilitate trades, has reportedly undergone an exploit attack over the weekend. Researchers have claimed that SushiSwap users who engaged with the protocol between April 4 and April 9 were most likely to have been affected as part of this attack.

In a significant move, India and the US on Thursday decided to launch a strategic trade dialogue to address export controls, explore ways of enhancing high technology commerce, and facilitate technology transfers.

India and the European Union on Monday announced setting up of a new Trade and Technology Council (TTC) that is expected to facilitate exchange of critical technologies relating to an array of domains.

The Swedish regulators have approved Binance Nordics AB to facilitate the management and trading of virtual currencies for its nationals. Crypto investors in Sweden will now have options to purchase digital assets in Euros and utilise Binance Visa card as well as Binance NFT services.

India will soon start trading with Russia in rupees as top lender State Bank of India has agreed to facilitate the new mechanism, the president of India's exporter group said on Wednesday.

BlackRock investment management corporation has teamed-up with Coinbase to enable institutional investors to trade and manage Bitcoin. BlackRock clients will be able to use its Aladdin investment-management system to oversee their exposure to Bitcoin and facilitate financing and trading on Coinbase. The crypto exchange’s shares surged 15 percent ...

Upgrading labour laws, simplifying taxation and creating a stable tariff environment are imperatives to facilitate a larger trade between India and the world, a new report said.

The Department of Consumer Affairs said in a statement on Thursday that it has set up a committee to develop comprehensive framework on Right to Repair. The objective of the proposed framework will be to empower consumers, harmonise trade between the original equipment manufacturers and the third-party buyers and sellers, and reduction in e-waste.

A group of four lawmakers have proposed to being NFT trading platforms under the legal scanner to curb their exploitation by notorious entities. Since NFTs are valuable digital assets and are usually purchased in exchange of cryptocurrencies, they can be exploited as an instrument to facilitate instant cross-border financial transactions. Hence, th...