Russia’s financial sector is changing as new infrastructure and development projects materialise, overseas funding is provided to friendly nations, and the landscape changes as regards use of currencies into addition to shifts in the way in which capital is used, from QR codes to Crypto all driving new regulatory and Central Bank guidelines. Navigate Russia’s financial landscape. Get analysis on the banking sector, investment mechanisms, currency exchange, and capital markets for businesses operating and investing in Russia.
Russia’s development of its domestic freight and logistics sector is expected to grow by over 13% in the period 2026-2031. We provide a comprehensive breakdown of this data – which is nearly 3 times more than the United States growth, and over 4 times more than the European Union over the same period.
Russia intends to raise over US$400 billion from domestic and overseas investors to complete its Transarctic Transport Corridor. That is about 30% of China’s total spending thus far on the Belt & Road Initiative. The majority of this funding is expected to come from the private sector.
Bangladesh runs a substantial Rupee trade deficit with India, but doesn’t trade such huge amounts with Russia. Consequently, to get around the Bangladesh-Russia trade imbalance and mitigate against threatened US sanctions on Dhaka, the two sides are discussing the use of Indian Rupees rather than the Bangladesh Taka to settle their mutual trade volumes of about US$2 billion per annum.
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has meet with Badr Abdelatty, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs. With bilateral trade growing at 12% per annum, we examine the significant developments being made in bilateral infrastructure, energy, agriculture, finance, tourism and trade between the two countries.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the Indian Minister of External Affairs. With bilateral relations booming, we discuss the current state of industrial cooperation in infrastructure, logistics, manufacturing, agriculture and trade.
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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with Khalilur Rahman, the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh. Bilateral trade and investment ties are booming, especially in nuclear energy and agriculture. We discuss the latest bilateral trends and developments.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Foreign Ministers Summit has just concluded in Kyrgyzstan. Russia’s Foreign Minister also had specific meetings with China, Iran, and Pakistan. We discuss the key developments including the potential establishment of an SCO Development Bank.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has held three days of meetings in Manila with all the ASEAN countries, in addition to meetings with India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Brazil and the United States. These took place under the Russia-ASEAN Summit, the ASEAN Regional Forum and the East Asia Summit. We provide detailed analysis of each of these discussions as well as examine the geopolitical and trade dynamics.
The Russian State Duma is poised to approve a series of investment incentives to attract investment into the Russian Arctic and Far East regions. These include five year tax breaks and other financial considerations. We provide the full investment incentive details.
Russia’s VTB bank has opened a QR code payments system in Argentina, which allows Russians to make commercial transactions in the country while bypassing SWIFT. Other rollouts in Latin American countries are expected.
The Russian gold merchant MGKL is to establish an office in GIFT City, Gujarat, where they will provide automated terminals for contactless appraisal, purchase and sale of physical gold and silver, the first time such a service has been provided in the country.
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