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WSJ What’s News

China Eases Its Tech Crackdown

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for March 29. Top Chinese officials rolled out the welcome mat for foreign CEOs this week in a bid to restore business confidence after a multiyear tech crackdown. WSJ deputy China bureau chief Yoko Kubota explains whether that and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma’s return to China are enough to sell that message. Plus, UBS brings back its former CEO to oversee the Credit Suisse takeover. Luke Vargas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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UBS hires a former CEO to steer the credit suites takeover. Plus Lockheed Martin bets on the

0:28.1

stars and Beijing takes a new tact on tech. Top officials have been quite busy sending messages

0:36.0

to reassure private firms, both Chinese and multinationals. That China is open to business,

0:41.6

it is supporting to private sector. It's Wednesday, March 29th. I'm Luke Vargas with the Wall Street

0:47.1

Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving

0:52.8

your world today. UBS is bringing on a former CEO to head up the bank. The Swiss banking

1:08.7

giant is tapping former leader Sergio Armardi to return as CEO and replace current chief Ralph

1:16.5

Armardi will have a lot on his plate after UBS agreed to take over longtime rival credit

1:23.0

Swiss earlier this month, a deal that will require it to integrate its operations and decide which

1:29.2

divisions to downsize on top of reassuring clients, employees, and investors. Armardi who

1:36.2

previously ran UBS for nine years described that task as urgent and challenging. He'll take over

1:43.0

April 5th. Crypto Exchange Binance is shedding deposits by the billions. According to crypto data

1:51.3

provider Nansen, as of Monday evening, traders had pulled $2.1 billion from Binance's Ethereum

1:59.1

blockchain over the preceding week. Nansen said that Binance still has more than $63 billion in

2:06.5

publicly disclosed wallets. However, journal reporter Julie Steinberg says those withdrawals come

2:12.5

as Binance deals with the host of other issues. This is happening after the commodity futures

2:17.9

trading commission sued Binance on Monday, alleging it operated illegally in the U.S. and violated

2:23.9

rules designed to prevent illicit financial activity. Investors and analysts are also monitoring

2:29.2

for more regulatory action against Binance in the coming months. From the U.S. or perhaps elsewhere,

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