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By Harry Robertson and Rae Wee LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar climbed to a one-month high against Japan’s yen on Monday as traders eyed up another interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve, while the Bank of Japan stuck to its easy money policies.

By Chris Prentice and John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to defend its rulemaking and policing of market misconduct at a Tuesday hearing led by Republican lawmakers who have accused it of overstepping its authority.

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – Celebrities who promoted FTX, including NFL quarterback Tom Brady and comedian Larry David, said an investor lawsuit seeking damages in the wake of the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse should be dismissed.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex Inc and its former CEO with operating an unregistered national securities exchange, broker and clearing agency.

By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday will weigh reopening a 2022 proposal that would expand the definition of an “exchange” following pushback from the cryptocurrency industry which fears being ensnared.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Following the Bank of Japan’s launch this month of a pilot programme to test the use of a digital yen, the Ministry of Finance plans to convene a meeting of experts on April 21 to discuss the way forward.

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency investors are facing delays to withdraw funds deposited on the Ethereum blockchain after its major software upgrade, highlighting persistent headaches for Ethereum which aims to have the technology widely used for instant payments.

By Harry Robertson and Ankur Banerjee LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar fell to a two-month low on Thursday after data showed U.S. inflation slowed sharply in March, bolstering hopes that the Federal Reserve’s rate-hiking campaign is either already finished or will be by May.

(Reuters) – Trading and investing platform eToro said on Thursday it has partnered with Elon Musk-led Twitter to let users access real-time prices for cryptocurrencies, stocks and others assets.

(Reuters) – Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has recovered over $7.3 billion in cash and crypto assets, an increase of more than $800 million since January, the company’s attorney said on Wednesday at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing.

By Tom Wilson (Reuters) – The software that underpins the second-biggest crypto coin ether is due for a software upgrade on Wednesday that will give investors access to more than $30 billion of the digital tokens.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The U.S. arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it will remove digital asset tokens TRON and Spell from its trading platform, sending the prices of both down sharply on Wednesday.

By Leika Kihara (Reuters) – Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies will consider how best to help developing countries introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDC) consistent with appropriate international standards, Japan’s top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on Tuesday.

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Deutsche Bank AG investment banker has been charged in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday with misappropriating funds from investors who he wooed with promises of big returns from cryptocurrency trading.