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Crisis, Finance May 14, 2017

Head of Central Bank of Russia: Russian banks are at the edge of bankruptcy

The head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said that some Russian credit institutions falsify their reports to the Central Bank, and are in a pre-bankruptcy state.

Corruption, Finance, Great Britain March 27, 2017

The Guardian: British banks were involved in ‘laundering’ money from Russia

According to the investigation of newspaper The Guardian, several largest British banks were involved in an international scheme of laundering of huge amounts of money from Russia.

Crisis, Finance February 22, 2017

Capital deficit of Russian banks reached $50 billion

The Central Bank of Russia liquidated nearly 100 credit organizations in 2016, and closed nearly 300 banks over the past 3 years during an unprecedented clearance of the banking sector.

Crime, Explosion, Terrorism August 24, 2016

In Moscow a man threatened to blow up bank

A drunk man took 4 hostages, threatening to blow up the Citibank branch in the center of Moscow.

Europe, Finance, Sanctions March 15, 2016

EU called on banks to refrain from placing Russian bonds

Brussels warned European banks against the placement of Russian sovereign Eurobonds, reports Financial Times, citing sources in the banks. The EU believes that the funds acquired from the placement of securities can be used “for wrong purposes”.

Crisis, Economy, Finance, Sanctions February 7, 2016

Russia asks for money in the West

Russia sent bids to 25 foreign banks for the placement of government bonds in 2016. This is stated in a statement of the Ministry of Finance, which was published on Friday, February 5.

China, Crisis, Finance February 5, 2016

Chinese banks are “running away” from Russia

Chinese banks are stripping assets of their “daughters” in Russia.

Crimea, Finance, Sanctions, Ukraine, USA December 25, 2015

Visa and MasterCard cut off a few more Russian banks

Six more Russian banks were disconnected from the payment systems Visa and MasterCard, reports “Vedomosti” on Thursday.

Finance, Sanctions September 28, 2015

Visa will no longer guarantee service operations with Russian cards

Starting from October 1, Visa is planning to give up on guaranteed transactions for cards issued by Russian banks.

Finance June 1, 2015

Sberbank refused to work in the Crimea

Sberbank (Russia’s largest bank – RRT) will not work in the Crimea and Sevastopol. This was announced during the annual meeting of shareholders by the head of the bank German Gref, reported the correspondent of “lenta.ru”. “It is unacceptable because…

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