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But it will also affect companies in the uk, because companies in the uk who thought they were going to be exporting, i don t know, whisky to russia next week will suddenly find that their bank will no longer process that payment. so i don t think we ve yet really thought through the consequences of what this means for uk industry. the uk, france and others have also called for russia to be excluded from the swift system, a network of 11,000 financial firms in 200 countries that facilitate international payments. it is considered among the most damaging sanction that could be imposed, but again it is not without cost to others. slap bang opposite the bank of england is this building, home to vtb, russia s second biggest bank. pulling firms like this out of swift will be disruptive for russia for sure, but it also comes at a heavy cost to those companies and countries owed money either now or in financial contracts by russian companies. it is particularly true of germany which has a dee ....
Into germany has been completed, it is yet to be used, but the news pushed gas prices in markets back up 10% again, just as they d started to fall. if sustained, that will add to bills in the autumn, which are already going up by record amounts in the next few months. there are lots of russian investments, financing and assets, that operate through the uk. some had expected a targeting of significant russian firms such as sparebank or vtb, but the uk sanctions announced today were very targeted, on individual allies of president putin and some relatively small banks. one long standing putin critic said much more could have been done. the sanctions announced today were very tepid. the three oligarchs who were sanctioned have already been sanctioned by the united states back in 2018 and they have surely rearranged all their affairs since then. borisjohnson knows who he really needs to sanction if he wants to change putin s calculus and that s the top 50 russian oligarchs who hold putin s ....
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2%, for our part today, the uk is enhancing the most severe package of economic sanctions that russia has ever seen. with new financial measures, we are taking new powers to target russian finance in addition to the banks we have already sanctioned this week. today, in concert with the united states, we are imposing a full asset freeze on the tv. more broadly, these powers will enable us to totally exclude russian banks from the uk financial system, which is by far the largest in europe, stopping them from accessing sterling and clearing payments through the uk. asset freeze on vtb. with half of russia s trade currently in us dollars and sterling, i am trade currently in us dollars and sterling, iam pleased trade currently in us dollars and sterling, i am pleased to tell the house that the united states is taking similar measures. these powers will also enable us to ban russian state and private companies from raising funds in the uk, ....
So i don t think we ve yet really thought through the consequences of what this means for uk industry. the uk, france and others have also called for russia to be excluded from the swift system a network of 11,000 financial firms in 200 countries that facilitate international payments. it is considered among the most damaging sanction that could be imposed, but again it is not without cost to others. slap bang opposite the bank of england is this building, home to vtb, russia s second biggest bank. pulling firms like this out of swift will be disruptive for russia for sure, but it will also come at a heavy cost to those companies and countries owed money either now or in financial contracts by russian companies. it is particularly true of germany, who have a deep financial relationship with russia and use the system to pay for two thirds of their gas supply. ....