On CNBC’s Squawk Box, Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a senior official within the government of the U.K., said that Libra, a crypto asset developed by a consortium of companies including Facebook, poses a risk to the global financial system. Hammond’s caution towards Libra comes after U.S. President Donald Trump and France’s […]

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