AfricaFocus Bulletins with Material on Politics and Human Rights April 19, 2021 Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/ga2104.php
The COVID-19 pandemic has both revealed and deepened structural
inequalities around the world. Nearly every country has been hit by
economic downturn, but the impacts are unevenly felt. Within and
across countries, the people who have suffered most are those already
disadvantaged by race, class, gender, or place of birth, reflecting
the harsh inequality that has characterized our world for centuries. March 8, 2021 USA/Global: Taxing the Tech Giants http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/dig2103.php
How should we determine the corporate tax a big tech company should
New SEC petition for NFT regulation & an exclusive interview with Brock Pierce.
A recent petition to the Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) asked for some clarification around Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), hoping to resolve any uncertainty the might hinder the juggernaut bullet train of NFT projects, art, collectibles, media, gaming, and so on barreling toward a bright future with a new form of digital ownership.
The petition notes a securities law from the 1930s that could possibly “provide a crude mechanism for the regulation of NFTs.” The petition then refers to the SEC’s Howey guidance to address the issue of whether NFTs should be considered securities which would cause all platforms selling and trading NFTs to be classified as exchanges or broker-dealers by the SEC.
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Five trends in green finance
To adequately respond to an issue such as climate change it is crucial to monitor the authenticity of green claims made by organisations
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To encourage the reallocation of capital towards a low carbon economy the EU has designed two climate investment benchmarks which pursue similar objectives but vary in their level of ambition
Cryptocurrency Scam Affects Hundreds of Small Investors
This past weekend was tough for some cryptocurrency enthusiasts who not only lost the money they approved on a presale transaction, but also lost all the money in their Trust Wallet through a deception that gave the scammers access to their entire wallet.
The victims invested in efarms, a new cryptocurrency launched by elonfarms, which operated with a Twitter account (@elonfarms), a website (elonfarms.finance), and a Telegram group (ElonFarms). All these accounts have been either deleted or deactivated.
Investors thought they approved a transaction fee to claim the presale efarms coins after the presale ended at midnight of April 23, yet lost all their tokens in their digital wallet Trust Wallet. They found out that the contract they accepted allowed elonfarms access to their entire Trust Wallet rather than the amount they committed. Many lost all their digital assets as a result.