Business Matters

Ed Butler is joined by Yves Hayaux Du Tilly, a Mexican lawyer who advises companies on business matters affecting Mexico and Latin America, and from Beijing by Jennifer Pak, the China Correspondent for American Public Media, to discuss the latest international business news.

In this edition they spoke about the Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who's been sentenced to four months in a US prison for failing to establish adequate anti-money laundering protections.

Reports coming out of Washington suggest that the US government is about to take an historic step toward easing federal restrictions on cannabis.

The lower house of Congress in Argentina has given its general approval to a comprehensive package of austerity measures proposed by the President, Javier Milei . The house in Buenos Aires has spent over a day voting on individual articles of the various measures which have led to huge protests in the city in recent months.

Also China’s leaders have pledged more support for the world’s second-largest economy, saying it “still faces many challenges”; and the Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones says young women in tech have to be 'resilient'.

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