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Global Financial Watchdog Suspends Russia’s Membership
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“The measure is both an important political statement as well as a recognition of the threats to the global financial system posed by Russia. The FATF identified Russia’s invo...
By Alex Zerden
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Putin’s Wartime Bluster Obscures Russia’s Precarious Future
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Sanctions imposed by Group of Seven (G-7) countries — the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom — and the European Union are aimed at strangling P...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Sanctions on Russian Bank Raise Questions About ‘sanctions-proofing’ in Gulf
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Rachel Ziemba, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security, told Middle East Eye the bank was “ahead of the curve" in establishing itself in the UAE, to take ...
By Alex Zerden & Rachel Ziemba
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Frozen Afghan Funds Have Done Little to Sway Taliban
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The U.S. has stepped up use of economic sanctions and asset seizures in the past two years as a foreign-policy mechanism against Afghanistan as well as Russia. In the case of ...
By Alex Zerden
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How Russia Is Surviving the Tightening Grip on Its Oil Revenue
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The gradual ratcheting up of oil sanctions, which are designed to cut Russia’s oil export revenues without snuffing out a fragile global pandemic recovery, is a policy that an...
By Edward Fishman
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Latam FX Rises against Softer Dollar, Vale Weighs on Brazil’s Bovespa
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The IMACEC economic activity index of the world's largest copper producer still ended 2022 in negative territory as it faced a slowdown after a rapid post-pandemic recovery. T...
By Rachel Ziemba
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New Cryptocurrency Unlikely to Help Russia and Iran Evade Sanctions
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It appears that Russia now sees cryptocurrency as a tool for engaging in bilateral trade with Iran, and a way to pay for those drones. By January 2023, the Russian news agency...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Leans on Turkey to End Russian Flights with American-Made Planes
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The warning to Turkey is a key test of whether the U.S. and its allies can succeed in isolating Russia over the long term, or whether Moscow can find a way to continue economi...
By Emily Kilcrease
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How a Prominent Russian Oligarch Helped Start America’s Cannabis Industry
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In addition to Abramovich’s direct funding of Curaleaf, the records show he lent about $84 million to Curaleaf’s largest shareholder, Andrey Blokh, and its chairman, Boris Jor...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. and China Pledge to Talk More to Avoid Worsening Tensions
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The Biden administration has kept in place a set of tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump and confronted Beijing over what it sees as human rights abuses, unfair trade ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Netherlands Considers Sending Patriot Missile System to Ukraine
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The United States makes much of the most advanced equipment needed by global semiconductor factories, known as fabs. In the short term, the new restrictions have been “like pu...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Russia’s Economy Is Still Working but Sanctions Are Starting to Have an Effect
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Though they may not have wrought the kind of economic turmoil in Russia initially predicted, analysts say these measures are causing damage and could have deeper impact going ...
By Elina Ribakova & Edward Fishman
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US Senate Votes to Ban TikTok on Government Devices
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Biden administration officials are trying to determine if there is a way to create a corporate structure that would allow TikTok to operate in the US, but with protections tha...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Pelosi Backs Adding TikTok Government Device Ban to Funding Bill
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Emily Kilcrease, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and former deputy assistant U.S. trade representative, said she viewed "the move on the Hill mostly as...
By Emily Kilcrease
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TikTok Security Deal’s Prospects Are Clouded by FBI’s Doubts, State Bans
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Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security who worked on Cfius issues while in government, argues that the Cfius discussion is too far along fo...
By Emily Kilcrease
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EU Edges Closer to $60-per-Barrel Russian Oil Price Cap
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Mnuchin told CNBC during a panel in November at the Milken Institute’s Middle East and Africa Summit that the price cap was “not only not feasible, I think it’s the most ridic...
By Rachel Ziemba
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What’s the Effect of Europe’s Planned Price Cap on Russian Oil?
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Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank, said “this will be an interesting few weeks and few months”. “Russia has made is ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Gulf Briefing: Swapping Petrodollars for Assets
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Gulf sovereign wealth funds strategy evolved, though. It has shifted from a preference for “portfolio funds” that buy numerous small stakes in a lot of companies to “investing...
By Rachel Ziemba
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China’s Yuan-Centred Payment Network No Match Yet for US-Dominated Global Financial System: Experts
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To date, there is no “smoking gun evidence” that Russian institutions have used CIPS to transact and “meaningfully” evade sanctions imposed by the US, according to Emily Jin o...
By Emily Jin
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Emerging Markets-Brazil’s Real, Stocks Slide after Budget Proposal; Other EM Currencies Weak
After sliding as much as 2.3% against the dollar, the real was last down 0.2%, while the Bovespa stock index dropped 1.5% after the incoming Lula administration proposed guide...
By Rachel Ziemba
