SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.
At the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club our session is called “A World Beyond Hegemony: BRICS as a Prototype of a New International Architecture”. The theme is vast and ambitious. Ambition is appropriate. Without ambition, nothing much is achieved. Th...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia and China began actively using the yuan in their trade in 2022. This is now undermining the US dollar's position as the world's reserve currency. This is the conclusion of a study by economists at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Historically, it takes...
By Rhod Mackenzie
After the BRICS summit in South Africa, where little to no progress was made in discussions on the issue of the creation of a single currency for the block, the Western media were unanimous in declaring the idea a failure and the utter futility the attempts at de-dollarisation, i...
By Vali Kaleji
The banking and financial relations between Iran and Russia have developed significantly in recent years under the influence of several factors, which is unprecedented in the history of relations between the two countries, Vali Kaleji writes.
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By Rhod Mackenzie
Yet another country has come out to join the growing number of countries looking to use their national currencies in cross border trade in an attempt to avoid using the dollar due to its dominance in the global financial system. It is also very significant and conspicuous that In...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Moscow Exchange will start currency rading in UAE dirhams with settlement in rubles on Monday, and will also allow the settlement of over-the-counter transactions with the central counterparty (CCP) with the Turkish lira and the Hong Kong dollar, according to a statement from...
