Tag: Russia

As of March 1, foreigner messenger services such as Microsoft Teams, Discord, WhatsApp, and Telegram have banned the provision of ...

Many readers of these pages will be familiar with the flip-flop on the part of Russia vis-à-vis the use of ...

In a follow up to a previously released survey of U.S.-based SMEs (which we covered on these pages), J.P. Morgan ...

Globally, the peer-to-peer (P2P) payments market is set to reach $4.93 billion in 2026, according to a recent report. The ...

The Russian Central Bank (RCB) said that roughly 50% of Russian cross-border payments are being made using currencies other than ...

Many of Russia’s largest banks have been denied access to the SWIFT network, save for certain energy-related payment activities. There have ...

One key question facing policymakers is how to regulate crypto. Due to its decentralized nature, cryptocurrency does not fall under ...

Russia has been increasingly interested in cryptocurrency, with President Vladimir Putin recently ordering the development of a national digital currency. ...

Last week we talked about India’s RuPay connecting to the sanctioned-Russian credit card network as a crimp in the G-7 ...

Less than six months after the EU and G7 sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, it appears that ...