Russia and Ukraine

Macro and monetary policy factors are affecting some currencies more than traditional commodity triggers.

Accepting payments from customers in Russia is not always a straightforward process, although interest in the area is growing.

Handing Ukraine’s largest bank back to its former shareholders would amount to economic suicide – but speculation is rising that leading presidential candidates plan to do just that.

Fitch sounds the alarm over unsecured consumer lending boom as household incomes stagnate.

Judge throws out claim in English court; lender on track for first full-year profit since nationalization.

Two borrowers beat US pressure by tapping into demand with euro and renminbi sales.

Five years ago it was a niche player specializing in consumer loans for the elderly – today Sovcombank is one of Russia’s largest privately owned banks, with a clutch of new shareholders from China and the Gulf. What lies behind its remarkable rise?

With new US sanctions looming over Russia and the effects of higher oil prices largely already priced in, will the Russian rouble sink or swim as we approach the end of 2018?

Investment bankers hope for an autumn thaw after a spring freeze.

Cryptocurrencies are still not legal in Russia for now, but that isn’t stopping businesses from preparing to take hold of the future.

The state has done a lot of damage.

Soviet military bunkers in Kazakhstan and portable houses in Siberia linked up to the plumbing: Bitcoin mining is moving in some interesting directions that will become even more diverse as China cracks down on its domestic industry.