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Saudi buying of U.S. Treasuries has soared since Trump election
By Liz McCormick
Bloomberg News
Sunday, June 30, 2019
By now, President Donald Trump's bromance with Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is well documented. The platitudes and chummy photo-ops. The billions of dollars in U.S. arms sales. And, of course, the willingness to brush aside evidence implicating the crown prince in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
But what's gone largely unnoticed is just how enthusiastic the kingdom has been in snapping up America's debt.
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Glint Completes L5 Million Private Placement
and Welcomes Sprott as Strategic Investor
Company Announcement
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Glint Pay Inc. (glintpay.com), the first-mover company that enables physical gold to make instant payments using a debit Mastercard, today announced the completion of a private placement of L5 Million in London-based parent Glint Pay Ltd. The financing was led by Sprott, an alternative asset manager and a global leader in precious metal and real asset investments with approximately $8 billion in assets under management.
Founded in the United Kingdom in 2016, Glint established the first app-based account in February 2018 giving clients in Europe a low-cost way to buy, sell, and save physically allocated gold and for the first time instantly spend it via the Glint Mastercard anywhere Mastercard is accepted. Glint Pay then added multiple currency wallets, including U.S. dollars, British pounds, and euros in July 2018. The company is working on its launch into the United States. ...
... For the remainder of the announcement:
https://glintpay.com/en_us/glint-en_us/glint-completes-5-million-private...
After aggressively culling its holdings of U.S. government debt for most of 2016, Saudi Arabia has amassed an even larger position since Trump's election in November that year. Based on the latest reported figures, the nation nearly doubled its ownership of Treasuries to $177 billion. No major foreign creditor has ramped up its lending to the U.S. faster. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-30/saudi-buying-of-u-s-d...
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