Hints and tips:
...“No one believes that the central bank is independent. It’s part of the government,” said Alexandre Rakviashvili, an economist and MP for the libertarian political party, Girchi....
...The top banking regulator under President Donald Trump has teamed up with a former risk officer at recently failed Silicon Valley Bank to launch a bank....
...“It’s virtually the wild west out there.”...
...Executives at one major state industrial company are banned from travelling more than two hours’ drive from Moscow without official permission, one of the people said....
...one....
...an FSB [Federal Security Service] officer in Moscow....
...You don’t have that yet among the oligarchs, or with any of the ministers, or the FSB [Russia’s security service]....
...One challenge unites them however — the difficulty of finding employees....
...On Monday, I confirmed a new Investment Zone in West Yorkshire....
...Even if they can no longer moor their yachts on the French Riviera, their bank accounts bulge with the profits of power....
...Zheleznyak said he went as far as to meet with the then-head of the FSB’s economic unit, Kirill Cherkalin, who suggested installing a retired FSB officer as a vice-president at the bank....
...I mean, there’s a division within the FSB which specialises in contact with foreign criminal organisations....
...One of those presentations, prepared by a major state-owned bank from August this year and also seen by the Financial Times, lists some of these critical areas....
...This is one of the very competent and successful parts, unfortunately, and at the other might be the central bank....
...These include: The world’s largest natural gas company, Gazprom, one of Russia’s largest oil producers and refiners, Gazprom Neft, oil pipeline group Transneft and one of Russia’s largest power companies...
...The corner of France that explains Macron, Le Pen and a deep political divide To understand the forces reshaping French politics, one only needs to visit the booming city of Bordeaux in south-west France...
...Global financial watchdog calls for ‘urgent’ action to contain crypto risks The FSB also warned that big banks and other systemically important financial institutions were “increasingly willing” to gain...
...Bortnikov’s father, Alexander, is head of Russia’s FSB spy service....
...Gideon RachmanSo very interesting line of thought and a rather disturbing one because, you know, having Iran cut off from the international system is already quite difficult for the west....
...While it announced this week that it was getting out of US retail banking, selling its Bank of the West operation to Bank of Montreal for $16.3bn, it wants to round out its New York presence in advisory...
...the central bank’s ability to prop up the economy and the rouble....
...“It looks like a totally hostile action against the Americans,” one of the people said....
...She had grown up in the north-west and gone to a local grammar school and a redbrick university. “I was a bit of a country bumpkin,” she says. “I had to learn how to use the Tube....
...He's the only one who lived in the west when he was in the KGB....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Chart of the day The Financial Stability Board (FSB) on Monday warned that climate change poses systemic risks that could jump from one financial institution to another — and ultimately...
International Edition