Vice President of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority: The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will start a consultation on the deposit protection scheme this year.

Market news: Bain Capital, which started raising capital this year, has raised about $2 billion for the new fund.

Market news: U.S. investment firm Bain Capital seeks to raise $4 billion for a new global special situations fund.

According to the British Financial Times: Armenia and Azerbaijan will resume peace talks in Brussels.

New Zealand Defense Minister: New Zealand will spend a further 328 million New Zealand dollars to upgrade defense force assets and infrastructure.

New Zealand Defense Minister: New Zealand will spend 420 million New Zealand dollars to increase the salary of defense personnel.

Trading platform Binance: Bitcoin withdrawals have now resumed.

Hong Kong Monetary Authority: The investment income of the Hong Kong Exchange Fund in the first quarter was HK$97.9 billion.

The Australian dollar AUD/USD was up 0.3% on the day at 0.6770, its highest in 2-1/2 weeks.

Trading platform Binance: We plan to reopen bitcoin withdrawals within the next hour.

Exchange Binance: We will replace pending bitcoin withdrawals with higher fees so they are accepted by mining pools.

Trading platform Binance: As our fixed fees did not anticipate the recent surge in Bitcoin network gas fees, a large number of withdrawal transactions are still pending.

According to relevant officials, the central banks of Indonesia and Malaysia have launched a QR code payment agreement.

According to Vietnamese media Tuoi Tre: The Central Bank of Vietnam will check the cross-shareholding of banks.

Spot gold stood at $2,020 per ounce, up 0.17% on the day.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: It is hoped that the G7 will play a driving role in the issue of world denuclearization.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: It has not yet reached the stage where we can talk about specific sources of funding for childcare policies.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: We must first consider the details of the childcare policy, and then see how it is integrated with other social welfare services.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: I hope to take the opportunity of the G7 summit to get member states to support peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: I hope to continue to impose sanctions on Russia in the G7.