(Reuters) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Saturday French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had supported cutting off Russia from the global SWIFT payment system in a phone conversation with him. France was also ready to supply weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, Kuleba wrote on Twitter. (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing by…
PARIS (Reuters) – A decision to cut Russia off from the global SWIFT payment system will be taken in a matter of days, the governor of a central bank within the euro zone told Reuters on Saturday. “SWIFT is just a matter of time, very short time, days,” the central bank governor, who asked not…
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Western partners are moving closer to halting Russia’s access to the SWIFT global interbank payments system, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on Saturday. “Our goal is that the decision is taken as early as possible. I cannot give a particular date. From what I’m hearing it seems that there is no…
LONDON (Reuters) – British Airways said it would cancel all short-haul flights from London’s Heathrow airport until midday on Saturday as it deals with an IT failure. “We are extremely sorry that due to the continuing technical issues we are facing we have regrettably had to cancel all short-haul flights from Heathrow today until midday,”…
By Yousef Saba DUBAI (Reuters) – E&, the UAE telecoms group formerly called Etisalat, is looking to expand into new markets in Africa, Europe and Asia and in areas outside telecoms such as financial technology as its seeks to drive growth, its CEO told Reuters. The company is exploring a range of possibilities, including potential…
(Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc is barring Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on its platform anywhere in the world, the parent company of social media giant Facebook said on Friday. “We also continue to apply labels to additional Russian state media,” its security policy head, Nathaniel Gleicher, said https://bit.ly/3hhkIJN on Twitter. “These…
(Reuters) -Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a flurry of credit rating moves on Friday, with S&P lowering Russia’s rating to ‘junk’ status, Moody’s putting it on review for a downgrade to junk, and S&P and Fitch swiftly cutting Ukraine on default worries. Both countries’ financial markets have unsurprisingly been thrown into turmoil by this week’s…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Canada, the United States, Britain and the European Union on Friday said they could act to exclude Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system in a further round of sanctions aimed at halting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Such a move could happen in coming days after officials in two European countries…
(Reuters) -Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a burst of credit rating moves on Friday, with Moody’s putting Russia on review for a downgrade to ‘junk’ status and Fitch swiftly cutting Ukraine on worries it may now default. Both countries’ financial markets have unsurprisingly been thrown into turmoil by the events this week, which mark the…
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -Qatar Airways has asked a UK court to reinstate an order for 50 Airbus A321neo passenger jets that the European planemaker revoked as part of a bitter dispute over the partial grounding of larger A350s, a court filing showed on Friday. Failing that, the Gulf carrier is asking a UK…
