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As Georgians resist their government and a turn towards Moscow, a British journalist reflects on her time in Georgia and what she learned about authoritarianism, exile, belonging and resistance The post Standing with strangers, a Tbilisi story appeared first on Coda Story.
A lot is written about corruption, but fundamentally it’s about trust and how healthy societies can’t exist without it; and the World Cup has shown what happens when trust breaks down. The decision to allow U.S. striker Folarin Balogun to play in the World Cup match against Belgium was, according to FIFA, made by the The post FIFA’s games betray our trust appeared first on Coda Story.
In Donald Trump’s famously transactional foreign policy, the critical resources of sovereign countries, from oil to rare earths, are being weaponized in a superpower struggle for control and dominance The post The Chilean curse is its abundance of riches appeared first on Coda Story.
The United Kingdom has taken over the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force, the global standard-setter on tackling money laundering, and seems determined to keep calm and carry on despite the gigantic Donald Trump-sized hole being blasted in everything it’s trying to do. The new president of the Financial Action Task Force is Giles The post Holding the U.S. to account, Tether exits EU Congo’s conflict coltan appeared first on Coda Story.
I was listening to Ezra Klein interviewing a left-wing Democratic Party strategist the other day about what a post-Trump U.S. foreign policy might look like, and it was a pretty striking demonstration of Europe’s irrelevance right now that the only Western European country mentioned in the 90 minutes of the chat was the UK, and The post How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing appeared first on Coda Story.
I’ve been writing this newsletter since 2020, and in my first edition I marvelled at the concept of the centi-billionaire, and the fact there were at the time three people with 11 zeros in their net worth. What a six years it’s been. When I started writing this week’s edition, Elon Musk was a mere The post Trillionaires are a national security risk appeared first on Coda Story.
It has become a theme of this newsletter to lay out what is needed to tackle financial crime, and then to point out how the U.S. government is doing the opposite, and I assure you that I am as bored of it as you are. I try therefore to avoid writing about Donald Trump any The post Donald Trump’s 250 gift to launderers and criminals appeared first on Coda Story.
A top banker has got in trouble by referring to employees whose jobs will be replaced by AI as “lower-value human capital.” But he’s just saying the quiet part out loud: compliance officers have been expected to work like inefficient computers for years already anyway. Standard Chartered CEO Bill Withers used the unfortunate phrase when The post AI is not the answer to AI-enabled fraud appeared first on Coda Story.
The United States is inching closer to passing a gigantic piece of legislation to put cryptocurrencies on a secure footing, with the bill emerging unscathed from the Senate’s banking committee. Opinions differ as to what this means: crypto people are thrilled, while anyone who knows about money laundering is terrified. Passage of the so-called CLARITY The post Crypto’s corrupt American dream appeared first on Coda Story.
For years at Coda, we have tried to understand not just what is happening in the world, but how seemingly separate crises, technologies and political movements connect The post The new samizdat appeared first on Coda Story.
