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Epic Games and Activision Blizzard Will Not Be Sold in Russia
The invasion of Russia on Ukraine is taking a toll on Ukrainians. Call it a work of Karma, but Russia is also facing several issues due to war. Apart from a dent in its economy and currency, Russia’s ...
Fake News Law Has Forced TikTok To Suspend Livestreaming In Russia
TikTok announced on Friday that it has halted live broadcasting and new material on its site while it considered the ramifications of a new fake news law signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on ...
Visa and Mastercard Suspend Operations in Russia as Part of Sanctions Over Ukraine – Finance Bitcoin News
The world’s leading payment processors Visa and Mastercard have joined sanctions against Russia over its military invasion of Ukraine. The American companies announced suspension of operations in the ...
Goodbye, Russia – A Number Of Goldman Sachs Employees Are Leaving Russia To UAE
Goldman Sachs is relocating some of its Moscow-based staff to the United Arab Emirates as a result of Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine, numerous news agencies reported Sunday. The Wall Street behemoth is...
Global Stocks Slump, Oil Prices Touch 14-Year High As Russia Intensifies Attack On Ukraine
Topline Global stock markets continued to be roiled by the deepening conflict in Ukraine while global crude oil prices briefly hit a 14-year high after Washington indicated that a ban on Russian oil i...
Four Payment Operators join in Suspending their Services in Russia amid Ukraine Crisis
More payment operators follow the orders of sanctions issued by the U.S., American Express, Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal announced on Saturday that they are all suspending their operations in Russia i...
Sanctions Bite – Netflix, American Express, 2 Major Accountancy Firms Reject Russia
As sanctions bite, Netflix – the world’s largest streaming entertainment provider, American Express, and prominent accountancy firms KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers – severed connections with Russia o...
Asian markets tumble as oil prices shoot higher amid calls for more sanctions against Russia
TOKYO — The price of oil jumped more than $10 a barrel and Asian markets were sharply lower Monday as the conflict in Ukraine deepened amid mounting calls for harsher sanctions against Russia. Brent c...
Binance, Coinbase Explain Why Cryptocurrency Won’t Help Russia Evade Sanctions – Featured Bitcoin News
The chief executives of two major cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, do not believe that cryptocurrency is an effective tool to help Russia evade Western sanctions. CEOs of Binance and Co...
Bitcoin Spikes After SWIFT Ban On Russia, Is This A Vital Position For BTC?
Bitcoin has sheltered at a temporary support level of $39,000, but acquirers are short at this time as the market steps into weekend price action. Uncertainty revolving around macro factors appears to...
Russia Giving Fuel To Bitcoin Value: Mark Mobius
As per veteran investor, Mark Mobius, he said in an interview that merchants can owe to Russia for the unforeseen bitcoin price hike they are seeing. At this point, Mark Mobius elaborated that numerou...
Ukrainian Entrepreneurs Struggle To Save Their Employees As War Threatens To Crush Their Businesses
Andrey Zdesenko, one of the top 100 richest people in Ukraine, is the founder of Biosphere Corporation, the largest manufacturer of household products in Ukraine. His company is now helping deliver ai...
The Titanium Supply Chain For The Aerospace Industry Goes Through Russia
Essential parts of the main landing gear of the Boeing 777 family come from VSMPO-AVISMA in Russia dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images The terrible war in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions placed on ...
Etoro Apologizes After Liquidating Its Clients’ Russian Stocks
Etoro is in trouble. The Israeli online trading platform has been going through a crisis of confidence with its customers for the past few days after it made a decision that had a significant impact ...
War Crimes In Ukraine? Here’s What Russia’s Been Accused Of And What Comes Next.
Topline The U.S. said Sunday there’s “credible” evidence of Russia committing war crimes, the latest such allegation against Russia in its war on Ukraine as the International Criminal Court launches i...
The Week Ahead – Russia Invasion Updates to Remain the Key Driver
On the Macro It’s a quieter week ahead on the economic calendar, with 50 stats due out through the week ending 11th March. In the week prior, 79 stats had been in focus. For the Dollar: JOLT’s job ope...
Russia Turns to China’s UnionPay System Amid Visa and Mastercard Departures
Visa and Mastercard joined the growing list of western financial companies that announced plans to withdraw from Russia. Looking for alternatives, the nation’s central bank said it has turned to China...
Energy Security, Prices Take Priority Over Climate Concerns In Crisis
WASHINGTON, DC – President Joe Biden is reported to be considering a third release of oil from the … [+] U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve of the Department of Energy since December to comb...
Centralised finance cripples Russia as Visa and Mastercard withdraw from country
Mastercard and Visa have announced that they will no longer operate inside Russia. With Russia already cut off from the SWIFT network and PayPal, the impact of exclusive reliance on centralised financ...
Mastercard, Visa suspend services in Russia amid invasion of Ukraine
advertisement Payments giants Russia and Visa joined the growing ranks of payments firms and fintechs that have suspended operations in Russia amid that country’s invasion of Ukraine. In stateme...
Bank Of Russia Still Doesn’t Want Russians To Have Access To Crypto As RUB-BTC Volume Hits Record High ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The Central Bank of Russia wants Russians to have nothing to do with crypto. Ruble-Denominated Bitcoin Volume hits 9-Month High. Major exchanges cont...
National average for a gallon of gas tops $4, the highest price at the pump since 2008
Fuel prices are displayed at gas stations on March 03, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Increasing demand and dwindling supplies coupled with global supply uncertainty driven by the war in Ukraine have driv...
Paypal Joins Other Payment and Remittance Providers Suspending Services in Russia – Bitcoin News
A number of payment and remittance platforms, now including Paypal, have restricted access to their services in Russia as western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continue to expand. Fintec...
Have Flat Tires And Ukraine’s Mud Season Stalled The Russian Column Outside Kyiv?
A Russian Pantsir S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and short-range missile system stuck in the … [+] mud and abandoned in northern Ukraine. Twitter @TrentTelenko This week, a widely read Twit...
German FX, SEC NFTs, Russia, Record ADV: Editor’s Pick
As the first week of an already-tumultuous March draws to a close, let’s take a look back at the news stories that dominated the worlds of forex, fintech, and crypto, in our best of the week seg...
Mastercard, Visa, Paypal Suspend Russian Operations – No Love For Russia?
Payment processing is likely to become significantly more difficult, as Paypal, Mastercard, and Visa have said that they will cease Russian operations in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The th...