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The Bank of England is Entertaining its Own Official Cryptocurrency
January 3rd, 2018
As originally reported by The Telegraph, the Bank of England may approve the creation of a state-sponsored cryptocurrency within the year. Just last year, the bank announced it had commissioned a theoretical currency, RS Coin, which could be used ...
Russia and China could set international gold price based on physical gold trading
December 4th, 2017
Since Russia, China, India, Brazil & South Africa are all either large producers or consumers of gold, or both, it is highly likely that the BRICS bloc they constitute could focus its cross-border gold trading network on trading physical ...
Breaking: Russia officially decided to regulate bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
October 12th, 2017
The Russian government has decided to officially regulate the mining and circulation of cryptocurrencies. The decision was made at a meeting between President Vladimir Putin with officials and business leaders. “We have agreed on the following: the state should ...
Russia has plans to introduce its own digital currency
August 25th, 2017
Russia has plans to introduce its own digital currency running on blockchain technology, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. The FSB “is actively working at the international level and wants to ensure that security issues are solved ...
Bank of Russia reveals banking statistics
August 17th, 2017
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has issued an announcement to publish banking statistics for the first seven months of 2017. Banking sector expands loan portfolio and resource base between January and July this year Banking statistics published ...
Russia is considering raising value added tax to 22 percent
May 18th, 2017
If the government raises value added tax and the central bank sees inflation risks from the move, it would be logical for the bank to keep interest rates higher than without the tax changes, Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Kolychev ...
Bank of Russia revoked the licence of a Bank
April 25th, 2017
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) has issued an announcement to inform on revocation of banking licence of credit institution Finars Bank and appointment of provisional administration. By its Order No. OD-1057, dated 21 April 2017, the ...
Central banks and gold
March 5th, 2017
The very near future is likely to see a sea-change in central bankers’ attitude to the gold allocation in their reserves. The failure of G20 monetary policy since the financial crisis is causing a general rethink, which may eventually ...
Bank of Israel keeps the interest rate unchanged
February 28th, 2017
Inflation data: The Consumer Price Index for January declined by 0.2 percent, in line with the average of forecasters’ projections. There were seasonal declines this month in the clothing and footwear component (9.2 percent), in the housing component (0.5 ...
Strengthening ruble boosts Russian imports
February 9th, 2017
Russian imports surged 36.4 percent year on year in January, as the ruble strengthened significantly, becoming the world’s best-performing currency last year. In the first month of the year, Russia imported $11.1 billion worth of products from non-CIS countries, ...
