
Bank of England raises rates to 0.75%, less sure about future moves
The Bank of England raised interest rates on Thursday for a third meeting running, as expected, but softened its language on the need for further increases from here.

The Bank of England raised interest rates on Thursday for a third meeting running, as expected, but softened its language on the need for further increases from here.

Russia has set out strict rules for foreigners seeking permits to buy and sell Russian securities and real estate, a client memo by Citigroup (C.N) showed, as details emerge of new state controls on investment in response to Western sanctions.

SPACs are turning to costly new tactics to keep investors from jumping ship as market confidence wanes in the once red-hot alternative to IPOs.
FRANKFURT/MADRID, March 15 (Reuters) – European Union regulators have told

Russia is due to pay $117 million in interest on two dollar-denominated sovereign bonds on Wednesday – the first such payments since its invasion of Ukraine which sparked a raft of sanctions from Western capitals and countermeasures from Moscow.

The economic cost of Russia’s assault on Ukraine was further exposed on Wednesday as the sanctions-hit country teetered on the brink of its first default on international debt since the Bolshevik revolution.

UniCredit (CRDI.MI) is urgently reviewing its Russian business and could decide on a costly exit of the country after its invasion of Ukraine, the Italian bank’s CEO said on Tuesday, as markets watch for a payment on Russian sovereign debt.

Myanmar will start accepting the Thai baht currency for settling border trade transactions and is also looking at a similar plan to use the Indian rupee for such trade, the ministries of information and investment said on Tuesday.

Japanese authorities ordered crypto exchanges on Monday not to process transactions involving crypto assets subject to asset-freeze sanctions against Russia and Belarus over the war in Ukraine.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been given a crypto-asset service provider licence by Bahrain’s central bank, its first such licence in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the company and the bank said on Tuesday.

The Bank of England raised interest rates on Thursday for a third meeting running, as expected, but softened its language on the need for further increases from here.

Russia has set out strict rules for foreigners seeking permits to buy and sell Russian securities and real estate, a client memo by Citigroup (C.N) showed, as details emerge of new state controls on investment in response to Western sanctions.

SPACs are turning to costly new tactics to keep investors from jumping ship as market confidence wanes in the once red-hot alternative to IPOs.
FRANKFURT/MADRID, March 15 (Reuters) – European Union regulators have told

Russia is due to pay $117 million in interest on two dollar-denominated sovereign bonds on Wednesday – the first such payments since its invasion of Ukraine which sparked a raft of sanctions from Western capitals and countermeasures from Moscow.

The economic cost of Russia’s assault on Ukraine was further exposed on Wednesday as the sanctions-hit country teetered on the brink of its first default on international debt since the Bolshevik revolution.

UniCredit (CRDI.MI) is urgently reviewing its Russian business and could decide on a costly exit of the country after its invasion of Ukraine, the Italian bank’s CEO said on Tuesday, as markets watch for a payment on Russian sovereign debt.

Myanmar will start accepting the Thai baht currency for settling border trade transactions and is also looking at a similar plan to use the Indian rupee for such trade, the ministries of information and investment said on Tuesday.

Japanese authorities ordered crypto exchanges on Monday not to process transactions involving crypto assets subject to asset-freeze sanctions against Russia and Belarus over the war in Ukraine.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been given a crypto-asset service provider licence by Bahrain’s central bank, its first such licence in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the company and the bank said on Tuesday.
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