The letter details how China uses its so-called debt-trap diplomacy to nurture dependence and extract strategic concessions from its borrowers.

Perdue and his colleagues hope that Washington's outsized role in the IMF, as its largest financial contributor, can persuade it to only to offer loans that won't be used to indirectly pay for Chinese projects.

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The judge also rejected claims the lawsuit seeks to apply U.S. securities laws to conduct that occurred overseas. Although a Swiss foundation oversaw the initial coin offering [ICO], Seeborg found the Breitmans' development of key elements for the project took place in California, and that marketing for the offering almost exclusively targeted U.S. investors.

In rejecting the extraterritorial argument, Seeborg also noted the lead plaintiff initiated his investment transaction on a website hosted on a server in Arizona, and that his contribution of the digital currency Ethereum was "validated by a network of global `nodes' clustered more densely in the United States than in any other country."

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Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

He applied to his local AIB [!] branch in Nenagh for a loan of €135,000. Circumstances were on his side: He had a perfect credit rating; his business survived the recession'; and the government had made a big play in purporting to support small businesses.

To this end, funding had been earmarked specifically for small business through the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, to be administered by the pillar banks. ...

Belfast [!] based agri-technology company Devenish Nutrition has secured €118m in long-term funding to enable its research, development and growth plans.The EIB loan of €40m will enable the company to develop a purpose-built Global Innovation Centre in Dowth, County Meath.
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The investment is backed by other finance partners Ulster Bank and Danske Bank.

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French transport minister, Elisabeth Borne, has officially protested against an EU plan connecting Ireland to Europe via Zeebrugge, Antwerp and Rotterdam after Brexit.

adding that French ports has the necessary resources to handle the likely increase in trade flows and preventing exports from being delayed by UK custom.