In its annual filing, the Goldman Sachs reports total credit exposure to Russia was $650 million. Most of it is tied to non-sovereign counterparties or borrowers. The firm is still trading corporate debt tied to the Russia without itself making wagers on price movements. New York-based Goldman Sachs stated: In our role as market-maker standing…
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Harpal Sandhu, CEO of Integral, commented: We’re delighted to be able to offer IntegralFX locally in SG1 and extending the many benefits of our FX workflow technology to the growing buy-side in Singapore, the 3rd largest FX center globally. Due to the modular nature of our cloud-based SaaS technology, clients can take individual components or…
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Dmitri Galinov, CEO and Founder of 24 Exchange, said: This new round of investment will help 24 Exchange extend our institutional trading offerings within and beyond FX and cryptocurrency products. We welcome the backing of such proven investors as Mark Yusko's Morgan Creek Digital, Aspire Financial and Blackwells Capital as we work to bring new…
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VTB is also due to be excluded from SWIFT global payments messaging system as part of the west’s financial sanctions regime. Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank has already announced leaving European market earlier last week. Sberbank and VTB account for over half of Russia’s banking market.
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The association represents 35 exchanges from 30 different countries in European Union, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The decision to exclude MOEX follows some FESE members like Deutsche Boerse suspending trading and settlement in Russian securities in response to sanctions. European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH) temporarily suspended EACH Russian Member CCP…
Read moreThe removal of these Russian banks from SWIFT was seen as drastic and unlikely a week ago, in the beginning of the invasion. It is one of the most powerful tools Western countries have to make Russia change course. Russia's largest lender Sberbank and Gazprombank were not included as they are the main channels for…
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The European Central Bank (ECB) had already ordered Sberbank's European unit to close. Sberbank has branches in many European counties including Austria, Croatia, Germany and Hungary. The bank’s Switzerland arm is not affected by the exit. Moscow Exchange The Moscow Exchange will not resume operations on Wednesday. The Russian markets operate pushed back the opening…
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Sberbank Europe issued a statement on the current situation: In the light of the latest geopolitical developments, several banks of Sberbank Europe Group registered significant outflow of client deposits within a very short time. In some subsidiary banks, this resulted in long waiting times in branches and partially in restricting the amount of daily cash…
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The official statement said: Due to the technical impossibility trade instruments involving Russian Ruble, all further trading is being discontinnued immediately. Any positions left open will be closed at following price levels: EUR/RUB long positions at 111.887; EUR/RUB short positions at 115.3272; USD/RUB long positions 101.457; USD/RUB short positions 102.323
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Forex Market The Russian finance ministry and Russia’s central bank have ordered domestic exporting companies to sell 80% of their forex reserves in order to help the rouble which plunged 30% against the dollar earlier today. The western governments imposed increasingly stricter sanctions on Russia following President Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. As part of…
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