The U.S. Treasury Department is still evaluating and discussing the impacts of expelling Russia from the SWIFT interbank payment system, U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for International Finance Ramin Toloui said at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday. During the Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio asked the panel that if Russia was to violate the Minsk Protocol, what the … Continue reading
Russia’s Rossiya and SMP banks, which fell under Western sanctions, are among the eight lenders that will start testing the country’s new national payment system on December 15. “The pilot project involves SMP Bank and Rossiya Bank, those for which the story is very critical and important. These are quite large banks,” the head of … Continue reading