The Japanese yen hit a 20-year low against the dollar on Tuesday, supported by high US Treasury yields and likely comparatively good US economic data this week.

Japanese Yen falls to fresh 20-year-low

Stressing on the need for currency stability, Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said that he was watching market moves "carefully." This comes at a time when the Japanese currency Yen has been drastically declining against the dollar.

Japan highlights need for currency stability as value of yen decreases

Governor of Afghanistan's Paktika province on Saturday asked shopkeepers to use only Afghan currency in their daily transactions. Governor Maulvi Abdullah Mukhtar visited Sharana, capital of Paktika province on Saturday.

Afghanistan: Governor of region bordering Pakistan asks people to use Afghan currency

Turkish currency remains volatile. Turkey's Finance Ministry said on Tuesday a new protection scheme meant to boost confidence in the currency will be applied to lira deposits with maturities of three to 12 months.

Turkey introduces new measures to guard local currency

These are challenging times for the Indian Rupee. A study claims the Rupee is set to end the year as Asia's worst-performing emerging market currency. What are the challenges? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: Is Indian Rupee 'Asia's worst-performing currency'?

A relatively lesser-known cryptocurrency had been witnessing a massive surge in the crypto market. In two days, the value of the digital token shot up by a massive 900 per cent.

After WHO names new Covid variant, Omicron crypto’s value skyrockets by 900 per cent, then nose-dives

Apple has halted all sales in Turkey as the Lira continues to sink further. How did Turkey, which was once the fastest-growing G20 economy come to such a pass? Palki Sharma tells you why Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 'economic experiments' are to blame.

Gravitas: Turkish Lira sinks, investors lose confidence | How has Erdogan's experiment backfired?

Turkish Lira has continued to slide and reach a record-low in three years against the dollar; the lira fell as much as 6 per cent to 11.3118 against the dollar, the biggest decline in eight months.

Turkey currency hits record low level, Lira has lost a third of its value

Amid waves of coronavirus pandemic and crippling US sanctions, Iran’s economy is shrinking and witnessing losses just before the country is set to resume the nuclear deal talks. Iran's currency Rial has declined by nearly 2.8% in the past week.

US sanctions cripple Iranian economy, more than 31% decline in last six months

As Myanmar`s economic slump deepens after February`s military coup and parts of its financial system freeze up, many in the strife-torn country are turning to online groups to bypass official channels to trade currencies.

Myanmar's economic crisis fuels underground currency trading

For the third time in 13 years, Venezuela on Friday will slash zeroes off its inflation-battered currency, the bolivar. This time, it will shed six zeroes, for a total of 14 since 2008.

A million bolivars become one as Venezuela recalibrates battered currency

Myanmar's currency has lost more than 60% of its value since the beginning of September in a collapse that has driven up food and fuel prices in an economy that has tanked since a military coup eight months ago.

Myanmar's junta powerless as currency drops 60% in four weeks, economy tanks

India's envoy to Japan Sanjay Verma has said that Indo Pacific vision is the 'new currency' even as he listed out how Quad is a grouping of 'convergence of principles'.

Indo Pacific is new currency, says Indian envoy to Japan Sanjay Verma; Backs Tokyo Olympics 

The Chinese commerce ministry has said that it will launch a digital currency pilot program in some cities including those in the northern Chinese region of Beijing.

Sovereign digital currency arms race: Chinese home-grown digital currency to be out soon

President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday that Zimbabwe's currency was under attack from businesses that were constantly hiking prices and this was part of a wider political plot against his government.

Zimbabwe president says currency under attack as prices spiral

As the coronavirus continues to unleash its wrath over the world with more than 1700 dead and 71,000 infected, China is trying something unconventional to counter the spread.

China intends to destroy 'infected currency' in a bid to contain coronavirus

Trial runs for the Chinese digital currently are underway in two cities, Shenzhen and Suzhou. Once the trial period ends, the currency will be available through banks and consumers shall have access to it.

Trial run for Chinese cryptocurrency underway in two cities

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday conducted searches at around 187 places in various states and Union Territories and has registered around 42 cases of bank frauds involving approximately Rs 7,200 crore.

CBI unearths 42 cases of bank fraud after raids at 172 locations

A year after Hong Kong launched a pioneering scheme allowing fund managers to invest in cryptocurrency assets, barely any players have been approved, highlighting the difficulties the industry faces in its bid to become mainstream.

Hong Kong's new crypto funds struggle to clear licensing hurdles

China's largely rubber-stamp parliament has passed a new law on cryptography as the country gears up to launch its own digital currency, state media reported late on Saturday.

China passes cryptography law to gear up for digital currency

Police on Sunday busted a fake currency printing unit in Idigarai in Coimbatore. Five persons including a woman have been arrested. The accused have been identified as Boopathy, Dhanraj, Praveen Kumar and Ranjith.

Counterfeit currency unit busted in Coimbatore, five held

Asian currencies strengthened against the dollar on Friday, with South Korea's won leading the pack, as bets increased that the US Federal Reserve would cut rates further after a host of weak data deepened fears of a slowdown.

Asian currencies rise as markets 'fully loaded' for Federal rate cut

The Central Bank of Nepal on Friday released three coins to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sikh Guru Nanak Dev. The coins with denomination of NPR (Nepali Rupees) 100, 1000 and 2500 were jointly launched by Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Chiranjibi Nepal and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri at Hotel Aloft in Kathmandu today.

Nepal Central Bank issues three coins to commemorate Guru Nanak Dev's birth anniversary

Australian Dollar falls below 70 U.S. Cents.

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