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Haema Sivanesan is a curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV), British Columbia. She has held leadership and curatorial positions in public galleries and visual art centers across Canada, as well as in Australia and South Asia. Her curatorial work typically focuses on art from South and Southeast Asia and its diasporas, with an interest in non-Western post-colonial and trans-national histories, world views, and practices. Recent exhibitions include:
Imagining Fusang: Exploring Chinese and Indigenous Encounters (2019),
Fiona Tan: Ascent (2019)
Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest (2018).
In 2018, Sivanesan was a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, Curatorial Research Fellowship (2018–19); and in 2016, she was a recipient of a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, Hong Kong, multi-year research and exhibition development grant for the project
Congress Members Introduce Stablecoin Legislation
On December 2, 2020, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Congressmen Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04) and Chairman of Task Force on Financial Technology Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-08), announcedStablecoin Tethering and Bank Licensing Enforcement (STABLE) Act (the Act), which, among other points, proposes to impose obligations on issuers of stablecoins. For example, the Act would:
Require prospective stablecoin issuers to obtain a banking charter;
Require companies offering stablecoin services to follow the appropriate banking regulations under existing regulatory jurisdictions;
Require company or bank stablecoin issuers to (1) notify and obtain approval from the Federal Reserve (Fed), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the appropriate banking agency prior to issuing the stablecoin and (2) maintain an ongoing analysis of potential systemic impacts and risks; and
December 10, 2020
What was billed as the first publicly listed debt security on a blockchain and tokenized on the Ethereum network abruptly ended in confusion after China Construction Bank (CCB) denied it was the issuer of a $3 billion blockchain bond. The planned listing was withdrawn following a decision by Fusang, a Malaysian digital securities exchange, to postpone the issue.
Investors remain unclear as to the precise role of CCB in the blockchain bond after reports emerged in November claiming Fusang partnered with the Labuan, Malaysia branch of CCB on the deal. Labuan is an offshore tax haven.
But in a disclosure, CCB, the world’s second largest bank by market capitalization, denied direct involvement or any links to cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. In a statement published on the bank’s Malaysian website, CCB said its role in the transaction was limited to that of “Lead Arranger, Listing Advisor of the bond, and the Facility Agent to facilitate clearing and settle