News El Salvador Financial: Athena Bitcoin to Attend Plan ₿ Forum El Salvador 2026; Country Manager Fernando Córdova to Represent the Company in San Salvador
Athena to host an onsite Bitcoin kiosk experience at MARTE Museum, highlighting regulated, user-friendly access to ...
News El Salvador Financial: El Salvador's president has soaring popularity based on controversial approach to crime
For the past year, El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele has had a unprecedented crackdown on gang-related activities. And it's led to unprecedented popularity for the millenial leader. Michael Fox reports from on Bukele's sky-high approval rating, and the improved quality of life, except for the thousands who may be unjustly imprisoned under the recent suspension of civil
News El Salvador Financial: El Salvador tries ex-leader Funes in absentia for gang truce
El Salvador opened a trial Wednesday against former President Mauricio Funes alleging that he had negotiated a truce with the country’s powerful street gangs when he was president, but the trial will ...
News El Salvador Financial: Better market conditions needed before El Salvador issues bitcoin bond -strategist
El Salvador's government should consider waiting for better market conditions to issue its much-publicized $1 billion bitcoin-backed bond, said Samson Mow, the strategist behind President Nayib Bukele's project. Two weeks ago, the Central American country rolled out legal framework needed to issue the bond, causing some to anticipate its launch in coming months despite no official announcement.
News El Salvador Financial: El Salvador's bitcoin experiment rides on choppy seas as currency fluctuates
The bitcoin cryptocurrency has seen its ups and downs lately, gaining and losing 10% of its value in just the past week. Nowhere is this volatility felt more intensely than in El Salvador, which became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender in 2021.
News El Salvador Financial: Growing Financial Tension In El Salvador, As Fitch Downgrades Its IDR Credit Rating To CCC From B-
Ahead of the proposed Bitcoin Bond sale by El Salvador, Fitch ratings have downgraded their IDR ratings citing several concerns.
News El Salvador Financial: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law: Understanding alternatives to government intervention
The move is controversial both in and outside of the country, heralded for its potential to bring financial services to large portions of El Salvador’s unbanked population and criticized for its ...
