Sentences with phrase «around international sanctions»

North Korea is investing in cryptocurrencies to get around international sanctions on their currency markets.

More disconcertingly, Venezuela and Russia have announced digital versions of their currencies in an effort that's widely seen as a way of getting around international sanctions.

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Carney went on to warn, «On the downside, at present, crypto - assets raise a host of issues around consumer and investor protection, market integrity, money laundering, terrorism financing, tax evasion, and the circumvention of capital controls and international sanctions.»

An ad hoc group within the International Whaling Commission has offered a proposal that would sanction some commercial whaling for the first time in decades while reducing the amount of whaling taking place through what amount to end runs around a longstanding whaling moratorium — like Iceland's expanding hunt of fin whales (video above) and Japan's «research» whale hunts in the ocean near Antarctica.

«At present, crypto - assets raise a host of issues around consumer and investor protection, market integrity, money laundering, terrorism financing, tax evasion, and the circumvention of capital controls and international sanctions» - said Mark Carney, governor, Bank Of England.

«At present, crypto - assets raise a host of issues around consumer and investor protection, market integrity, money laundering, terrorism financing, tax evasion, and the circumvention of capital controls and international sanctions,» he said.