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Belfast Telegraph
March 19, 2018
Turkish military and allied Syrian have captured the northern Syrian town of Afrin, previously controlled by the Kurdish militia known as the People's Defence Units (YPG). ... Azad Mohamed, a resident of Afrin who fled the fighting, said he spent two days on the road until he reached relatives in eastern Syria.
EU News
March 19, 2018
In addition, 67 entities are targeted by an assets freeze. More broadly, sanctions currently in place against Syria include an oil embargo, restrictions on certain investments, a freeze of the assets of the Syrian central bank held in the EU, export restrictions on equipment and technology that might be used forÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 18, 2018
Seven years ago when Iran started getting involved in the Syrian conflict the narrative promoted by the authorities was that Iran was going there to protect “the Shi'ite holy shrines” against attacks by ... The third item in Iran's “Syria expenses” list consists of what the central Bank of Iran calls “transfer funds”.
gulfnews.com
March 18, 2018
Beirut: IMF criticism of Lebanon's public finances is valid, but the country's draft 2018 budget sends a good signal as it seeks to cut one of the world's highest debt-to-GDP ratios from above 150 per cent, the head of its central bank said. Riad Salameh also said in an interview with Reuters on Friday thatÃâà...
Ahval
March 17, 2018
With the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank due to raise interest rates – moves that threaten to draw capital out of higher-yielding ... Turkey is also distancing itself from the European Union and the United States and, through its recent actions in northern Syria, appears somewhat of a pariahÃâà...
Business Insider
March 17, 2018
The Central Bank said this allowed the latter to meet all regulatory requirements immediately, without going through temporary administration. However, some Kremlin insiders are said to be worried that the state is purposely restructuring the banking sector in order to consolidate its financial power and get access toÃâà...
Defense One
March 2, 2018
In April, a Chinese delegation of investors led by Qin Yong of the Chinese Arab Exchange Association visited Homs and Damascus to meet with senior ministers and leaders—the Investment department in the Prime Minister's office, governor of Homs, President of the Syrian Central Bank, and the ministersÃâà...
EU News
February 26, 2018
More broadly, sanctions currently in place against Syria include an oil embargo, restrictions on certain investments, a freeze of the assets of the Syrian central bank held in the EU, export restrictions on equipment and technology that might be used for internal repression as well as on equipment andÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
February 23, 2018
For its part, the United States has expanded the immunity of central bank assets through important cases interpreting the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Meanwhile, the U.S. has also limited—through the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012—the immunity available to certainÃâà...
UNIAN
February 22, 2018
On Tuesday, Latvia's Ministry of Defence said accusations of money laundering at one bank and bribery allegations against the central bank governor could be part of a foreign campaign to influence elections due there in October. It did not name a specific country. Russia's annexation of the CrimeanÃâà...
New York Times
February 19, 2018
Spain's economy minister, Luis de Guindos, is poised to become vice president of the European Central Bank, raising hopes in Madrid for more clout in the E.U.'s halls of power. • The European Central Bank froze payments by ABLV Bank, one of Latvia's biggest banks, amid accusations, which it denies,Ãâà...
swissinfo.ch
February 16, 2018
... been frozen because its Russian president is under US sanctions for alleged dealings with the Syrian government, according to FIDE and media reports. ... under US sanctions in November 2015 “for materially assisting and acting for or on behalf of the Government of Syria and the Central Bank of Syria”.
Borgen Project
December 31, 1999
For example, from December 2016 to December 2017, Syria's stock of narrow money increased by $1.3 billion and its stock of broad money by $1.17 billion. During this time. the inflation rate also fell from 43.9 percent to 25.5 percent and the central bank discount rate fell from 5 percent to .75 percent.
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