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Dollar policy won't change until it changes, Treasury secretary helpfully explains
Mnuchin Says No Change to U.S. Dollar Policy 'As of Now'
By Saleha Mohsin
Bloomberg News
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said there is no change in the U.S.'s dollar policy "as of now" but wouldn't rule out a shift in the future.
There has been "no change to the dollar policy," he said during an interview Thursday following a Group of Seven finance ministers' meeting in Chantilly, France. "This is something we could consider in the future but as of now there's no change to the dollar policy."
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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...
The Trump administration has softened the long-held U.S. stance of supporting a strong dollar, favoring a stable exchange rate instead as it battles China in a trade war and threatens tariffs on other countries. Mnuchin has also signaled a preference for letting markets determine a currency's value. "These are very, very large, liquid markets," he said in the interview. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-18/mnuchin-says-no-chang...
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