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On Bank of Russia key rate ( from 14.00 to 12.50%)
April 30th, 2015
On 30 April 2015, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to reduce the key rate from 14.00 to 12.50 percent per annum, taking account of lower inflation risks and persistent risks of considerable economy cooling. Amid ruble appreciation and significant contraction in consumer demand in February-April 2015, monthly ...
Cutting Russia off SWIFT banking network would be catastrophic — UniCredit representative
April 30th, 2015
In case of a cut-off, Russia will be much more effective in adopting a different system of payments, maybe in cooperation with China, and many Western banks will collapse The idea of cutting Russia off the SWIFT international banking ...
Bank of Russia Opposes Forex Restrictions
April 28th, 2015
The Bank of Russia said late Monday that it opposes any restrictions on using foreign currencies in Russia, addressing earlier calls from the country’s security council. The inter-agencies commission of the Security Council of Russia had told the central ...
Putin Says Russian Economy Could Return to Growth in 2 Years
April 16th, 2015
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s economy could return to growth in less than two years, even though he considers it unlikely that the West will lift economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis soon. In a televised call-in ...
Bank of Russia: Participation in capital of OJSC Moscow Exchange and CJSC SPCEX
April 2nd, 2015
Pursuant to Article 49 of Federal Law No. 251-FZ, dated 23 June 2013, ‘On Amending Certain Laws of the Russian Federation Due to the Delegation to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation of the Authority to Regulate, Control and Supervise Financial Markets’ the Bank of Russia is obliged to withdraw from the capital ...
Russia’s Putin calls for regional currency union
March 23rd, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday creating a regional currency union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russia’s main partners in a union of ex-Soviet states facing growing economic challenges. Putin made his proposal at a meeting with the Belarussian ...
Russia Deposit Fight Sees Foreign Banks Seeking New Clients
March 19th, 2015
Oksana Semenikhina, a customer of Citigroup Inc.’s Russian unit for the past decade, got an offer from the lender this year that she couldn’t pass up. “They offered to open a ruble term deposit for me at 9 percent ...
Australia central bank acting like it ‘just woke up’
February 6th, 2015
Australia’s record low interest rates are about to head way lower, analysts tell CNBC, as the country’s central bank scrambles to play catch up in the race to the bottom for borrowing costs. “The RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia) ...
Finnish investment funds have significantly reduced their investments in Russia
February 2nd, 2015
Bank of Finland issued a statistic saying that: The outlook for the Russian economy was in 2014 clearly reflected in the investments by investment funds registered in Finland. During the year, investment funds’ assets in Russia decreased by nearly ...
What Would Exclusion From Payment System SWIFT Mean For Russia?
January 29th, 2015
Discussions among European leaders about new sanctions on Moscow have again raised fears that the SWIFT international payments system might be cut off, a move that experts warn would wreak financial havoc on Russia. The Society for Worldwide Interbank ...