News with the tag "Sergio Massa"

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Argentine presidential candidate Sergio Massa has proposed to use blockchain for state oversight, the Brazilian securities regulator president stated (CBDC) drex mig...

Milei won over 55% of the votes with 99% of the votes counted in the run-off presidential election.

Presidential candidate and Economy Minister Sergio Massa has proposed to develop a system to allow citizens to control and monitor state finance using blockchain tech in Argentina. At a recent presidential campaign rally, he declared that Argentines “should be able to control state accounts with the...

The group, “Bitcoin Argentina,” previously rejected the idea that regulation was needed in the cryptocurrency industry.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Argentina prepares for a run-off election with crypto on the agenda, Colombia works to formulate a digital peso, and Prosegur will build a crypto-secure bunker in Br...

This past weekend in Argentina, a vote for the country’s next president led to a runoff between Finance Minister Sergio Massa of the Unión por la Patria party and libertarian candidate Javier Milei of the La Libertad Avanza party. In the Sunday vote, Massa received 37% while Milei garnered 30%. Mass...

Argentina’s far-right and pro-Bitcoin (BTC) candidate has failed to clinch victory in the first round of voting trailing biggest rival and Economic Minister Sergio Massa. After 97% of votes cast counted on Sunday, Massa won the first round with 36.6% of votes while Milei trailed in second with 30% o...

Sergio Massa’s stance on central bank digital currencies appears to be in complete opposition to Javier Milei, a pro-Bitcoin candidate who wants to abolish Argentina’s central bank.

The upcoming presidential election in Argentina, scheduled for October 22, holds significant economic implications. Sergio Massa, Minister of the Economy and presidential candidate for the Union for the Homeland party has committed to introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). This proposal...

The exchange rate of the Argentine peso reached historic lows Monday in a decline that took its exchange rate to almost 600 pesos per U.S. dollar. Economists state that the uncertainty of the upcoming elections caused key bagholders to hedge their portfolios with foreign currency. However, analysts ...