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Wise founders Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus are now billionaires following the fintech firm's stock market debut.

Wise shares opened at £8 a share Wednesday morning, giving the company a market value of £8 billion ($11 billion).

"Compliance is a journey – especially in new sectors like crypto," Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, said in a blog post Wednesday.

Some investors believe a loss of confidence in tether could be crypto's "black swan," an unpredictable event that would severely impact the market.

All U.S. forces were accounted for and damage is still being assessed on the Iraqi base.

China shut down a company suspected of providing software services for crypto transactions, and issued a stern warning about providing other sorts of services.

Selected projects will undertake their research at a facility off the coast of Oregon.

A research analyst has revealed why he warned his clients to avoid buying into ride-hailing app Didi ahead of the company's New York listing.

French lawmakers are now preparing a new law that would effectively force health care workers to get their covid shot.

The economic outlook has improved for the euro zone, according to the European Commission's latest forecasts on Wednesday.

The main Didi service has been removed as a shortcut from Tencent's WeChat and searching for the app no longer yields any results.

Xpeng issued 85 million Class A ordinary shares at a price of 165 Hong Kong dollars each, raising 14.02 billion Hong Kong dollars ($1.8 billion).

British money transfer company Wise is set to go public on the London Stock Exchange through a direct listing.

Experts are warning the public that there could be a very significant flu season this coming winter.

Wingtech Technology is heavily backed by the Chinese Communist Party, according to analysis from Chinese investment screening specialists Datenna.

Nischal Shetty has made a name for himself in India as the co-founder and CEO of the country's largest cryptocurrency platform.

With less than a year to go before French voters head to the polls, Macron is considering reviving a pension reform, though this sparked long strikes in the past.

India was knocked off its growth trajectory last year due to a months-long national lockdown aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

The U.S.-China relationship should not be viewed as a "new cold war," White House coordinator for the Indo-Pacific Kurt Campbell said at an Asia Society event.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index led losses among the region's major markets, falling 0.9%.