Central Securities Depositories

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Nov. 8 offering a way for Russian investors to "swap" their frozen assets abroad with the frozen assets of foreign companies in Russia.

Since the conflict in Ukraine, Western countries have introduced a barrage of sanctions against Moscow, blocking its banks from making international payments and freezing Russian assets abroad.

International central securities depository Euroclear Bank will give swap and deposit services for domestic debt securities of the Turkish government.

Turkey has agreed with Euroclear to improve accessing capacities of non-residents to Turkish lira, euro, dollar and gold denominated bonds, the country's Treasury and Finance Ministry announced on June 8. 

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Some €10 billion of Libyan government funds, frozen as part of sanctions against the late Muammar Gaddafi's inner circle, has mysteriously disappeared from a Belgian bank somewhere between 2013 and 2017, according to local media.

Dobroslav Bojovic, director of the Napred Razvoj company, has become the majority owner of Serbia's largest construction company, Energoprojekt.

Serbia's Central Securities Depository and Clearing House on Monday finalized the takeover bid.

The European Central Bank released a press statement announcing that the first group of securities depositories and their user communities from Greece, Malta, Romania and Switzerland are now connected to the T2S for settlement of euro transactions: Read the full statement: