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China tells brokers to stop endorsing stablecoins in bid to avoid instability, Bloomberg News reports
(Reuters) -Chinese regulators have asked local brokers and other bodies to stop research publication and seminars to endorse stablecoins in a bid to check the asset class and avoid instability, …
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