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Paraguay takes over Ueno Bank, with 3 million customers, and freezes its deposits

Reported by MercoPress UK

Paraguay’s Central Bank took over Ueno Bank, froze its assets and liabilities—including customer savings and public funds—and the bank suspended all services. The source reports about 3 million customers and more than US$800 million in public funds.

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  • Affected location: Paraguay
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Illustrative image: Solar resource: GLOBAL HORIZONTAL IRRADIATION (GHI) - this map provides a summary of the estimated solar energy available for power generation and other energy applications. It represents the long-term average of daily/yearly totals of global horizontal irradiation (GHI). The underlying solar resource database is calculated by the Solargis model from atmospheric and satellite data with 15- or 30-minute time step. The effects of terrain are considered at nominal spatial resolution of 250 m. GHI i — Solargis/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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The takeover and freeze affect millions of reported customers and public funds, while all bank services are suspended.

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Confidence
6/10
Geographic reach
4/10
Global importance
5/10
Impact magnitude
6/10
Urgency
6/10

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