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Bitcoin rose 1.5% in early Asia on Tuesday, after firming overnight in line with equity markets and other risk assets, but many crypto traders remained on edge after Saturday's sharp and sudden plunge.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta approved a change in law that will allow the central bank to regulate digital lenders, his office said on Tuesday, a move that will give the bank power to rein in lenders who violate consumer privacy.

Bitcoin hovered around $49,000 on Monday, down 1.5% on the day, as traders nursed losses after a brutal weekend in which the price of the world's largest digital asset at one point lost over one fifth of its value.

Bitcoin dropped by almost 5% on Monday as the start of the week offered little respite to the world's largest cryptocurrency after a bruising weekend when, at one point, it lost over a fifth of its value.

Factories in Vietnam are struggling for staff after many migrant workers returned home when a coronavirus lockdown that had kept them in Ho Chi Minh City for months last year was eased, a partner at venture capital firm Cento Ventures told Reuters.

Abrdn is to buy investment platform interactive investor for 1.49 billion pounds ($1.98 billion) in cash, as traditional asset managers seek to build up customers using online providers.

China will strengthen personal protections in the financial technology sector to curb unauthorised data collection and abuses, the country's central bank chief said on Wednesday.

Some 140 million people had opened "wallets" for China's new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totalling around 62 billion yuan ($9.7 billion), a senior Chinese central bank official said on Wednesday.

Senator Zaffirini passes 106 Bills during 87th legislative session Courtesy of the Office of Sen. Zaffirini June 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Zaffirini/ The 87th Texas Legislature concluded Monday, and the Senates highest-ranking woman and Hispanic member, Senator Judith Zaffirini, DLaredo, was the Senates highest bill-passer for the fourth consecutive session. Despite challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant budget deficit, and Winter Storm Uri, Senator Zaffirini passed 106...