"China’s top financial regulators see Tencent as the next target for increased supervision after the clampdown on Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. Like Ant, Tencent will probably be required to establish a financial holding co. to include its banking, insurance, and payments services."
"Alibaba is also being probed and the watchdog is considering a record fine exceeding the $975 million that Qualcomm Inc. paid in 2015, Dow Jones has reported."
"Newly discovered shipping records demonstrate one of the first known instances of a private Israeli cyber intelligence company working directly with former KGB and current FSB officials who are authorized to maintain Russian state secrets."
@MingGao26 "Rayzone Group, a Tel Aviv-based cyber intelligence/spyware company, received a shipment from the Engineering and Commercial Multidiscipline Center, part of a Russian defense and intelligence contractor in Moscow."
Will Tom Barrack walk away from a $250 million bond? He must wear a tracker and his travel has been restricted to Southern Cali and NY. He's accused of using his proximity to the WH to lobby for the UAE without disclosing his role as required to the DOJ. variety.com/2021/tv/news/t…
Barrack provided $5 M cash and 21 M shares of the company he founded, now called DigitalBridge (DB). Son, Thomas Barrack III, ex-wife Rachelle, and Jonathan Grunzweig, a DB exec, signed over their residences. His lawyers promised to relinquish Barrack’s US and Lebanese passports.
During Barrack's short stay in jail, he resigned from the boards of USC, First Republic Bank and DigitalBridge. As part of the terms of his release, the magistrate prohibited Barrack from having contact with Emirati or Saudi officials.
Matthew Chance Hudson, Age 78 aka M Nance, Matthew Hodson, Mathew C Hudson, M Hudson "Matthew Hudson, who had been in semi-retirement restoring historic Blanefield House near Kirkoswald and
trying to improve a struggling golf game...had a $20m law suit outstanding against him...
"In October 2020, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how a web of sites connected to conspiracy theory movements QAnon and 8chan were being kept online by DDoS-Guard, a dodgy Russian firm that also hosts the official site for the terrorist group Hamas."
"DDoS-Guard said its services rely in part on a traffic-scrubbing facility in Los Angeles owned by CoreSite [NYSE:COR], a real estate investment trust which invests in “carrier-neutral data centers and provides colocation and peering services.”" krebsonsecurity.com/tag/ddos-guard/
I'll start with Edmond Safra's death because the bank bearing his name is involved. Safra death in Monaco - thread - read back from here. Placekeeper - Robert Maxwell
Edmond J. Safra Died 3 December 1999). A Lebanese Brazilian Jewish banker who continued the family tradition of banking in Syria, Lebanon, Brazil and Switzerland. Married to Lily Watkins from 1976 until his death. Died in a fire that was judicially determined to be due to arson.