Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey sought to dispel fears that a digital version of the pound will turn into a surveillance tool for UK authorities after its proposals were attacked by conspiracy theorists online and on motorway bridges.

BlackRock Inc. and Valkyrie refiled their application for an exchange-traded fund that invests directly in Bitcoin, shoring up their filings after the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated the recent wave of requests seeking to launch such a product were insufficient.

Leaps in AI technology are raising questions about fair lending, fraud detection, and cybersecurity at banks, but federal banking regulators already have tools in place to deal with those issues, industry watchers say.

Lawmakers return this week, aiming to make progress on key authorizations and appropriations ahead of August recess and looming deadlines this fall.

An SEC enforcement initiative targeting misleading ESG disclosures has become a business risk for dozen of public companies, including bankrupt Bitcoin miner Core Scientific, shale oil producer Pioneer Natural Resources and banking giant Ally.

Crypto enthusiasts are hopeful that a once-in-four-years event which rewrites the underlying code of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency will extend the current market rally. But the milestone also risks sounding the death knell for certain Bitcoin miners.

Brazilian miners will seek to exclude in the Senate an article in the country’s tax-reform proposal allowing states to create a tax on primary and semi-manufactured products for investment in infrastructure and housing works, Rinaldo Mancini, director of the Brazilian mining institute Ibram, said in an interview.

Norway has terminated its tax treaties with five countries, saying they were outdated.

The Norwegian government will offer up for sale the additional salmon farming capacity that went unsold after the country’s biggest aquaculture companies, incensed by a contentious tax proposal, snubbed an October auction for licenses.

The UK government should raise taxes to help the Bank of England tame soaring prices if it’s serious about cutting inflation in half this year, according to Standard Chartered’s head of research for Europe and the Americas.

Several EU technology companies wrote to finance ministers across Europe on Monday to extend an international agreement to stop digital services taxes beyond Dec. 31.

A Kenyan High Court extended freeze orders on the collection of new taxes pending a full hearing by a bench of no less than three judges, according to Judge Mugure Thande.

Lawmakers return this week, aiming to make progress on key authorizations and appropriations ahead of August recess and looming deadlines this fall.

The high court victory of a woman who declined to create a website promoting gay marriage affirmed the long-held tenet that the US government can’t force you to say things you don’t believe, say Kristen Waggoner, president of Alliance Defending Freedom, and Nadine Strossen, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union.

This week, our experts covered topics ranging from Wisconsin’s repeal of its business personal property tax to Canada’s proposed new transfer pricing rules. For a look at the latest commentary and analysis, check out our weekly roundup.

The week in state tax news: New York is on the verge of doing something unprecedented in both state and federal law, which is to create a searchable database of the beneficial owners of shell companies. Meanwhile, New Jersey and Minnesota enacted conflicting laws addressing the taxation of GILTI, global intangible low-taxed income.

A spending bill that increases tax benefits for seniors, creates a paid family leave program, and makes Maine’s dependent exemption tax credit refundable is heading to Gov. Janet Mills (D), who has said she will sign it.

A for-profit ship repair business can’t avoid property taxes even though it operates at a government-owned deepwater port, a Florida appeals court ruled Friday.

The Wagner Law Group’s Michael Schloss, who spent more than 30 years at DOL enforcing ERISA, reflects on retirement policies that except ERISA’s primary fiduciary requirements for tax-subsidized plan assets while promoting employee stock ownership as well as environmental and social goals, and barring investments in firms tied to U.S. adversaries.

Kaitlyn L. Mariano has been promoted to senior tax manager at Dannible & McKee in Syracuse, N.Y., and Samuel T. Walsh has been promoted to tax senior, the firm said Monday.

Greg Nelson has joined Gibson Dunn as a senior counsel with the tax practice group, the firm said Monday.

Adopting a carbon border adjustment mechanism would help US manufacturers avoid potential EU carbon tariffs and encourage production of low-carbon alternatives, says Project Canary’s Chris Romer.

The high court victory of a woman who declined to create a website promoting gay marriage affirmed the long-held tenet that the US government can’t force you to say things you don’t believe, say Kristen Waggoner, president of Alliance Defending Freedom, and Nadine Strossen, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union.

This week, our experts covered topics ranging from Wisconsin’s repeal of its business personal property tax to Canada’s proposed new transfer pricing rules. For a look at the latest commentary and analysis, check out our weekly roundup.