SWIFT

Via Zerohedge…

In a recent speech made to Congress last week, US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Sigal Mandelker has confirmed that the US Treasury has frozen Russian-owned assets in the United States worth hundreds of millions of dollars as part of Washington’s sanctions campaign against Moscow since 2013.

“The actions of the US Treasury have had significant consequences for the financial interests of individuals and businesses that were affected, including the blocking of hundreds of millions of dollars of Russian assets in the United States.”

It's begun: Germany wants a new financial clearing system independent of American-controlled SWIFT: Here's the Zero Hedge article and the Sputnik article:     […]
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Ahead of the crucial Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Qingdao this coming weekend, three other recent events have offered clues on how the new world order is coming about.

With threats of further anti Russia sanctions blowing about across the American political landscape, Russia has been hard at work at both neutralizing the effects of existing sanctions as well as insulating itself against further sanctions.
Those efforts include reducing Russia’s utter economic dependence on oil, stockpiling gold, and creating its own alternative to the SWIFT banking system for domestic transfers, among others.
RT reports:

Europe isn't happy about President Trump pulling out of the Iran deal, and according to RT, they're planning to do something about it. It's […]
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De-dollarization has become popular, not only with countries like China, Russia and Venezuela (for reasons including sanctions and trade disputes), but also for individuals looking to diversify their holdings and liberate themselves from central bank, fiat control.
The Strategic Culture Foundation’s Federico Pieraccini examines if Bitcoin’s growth is connected to the global de-dollarization trend.
“Is Bitcoin a Reaction to US Dollar Hegemony?” by Federico Pieraccini…

Jon Huntsman, the new ambassador to Russia who President Donald Trump has appointed, has downplayed the prospect of further sweeping sanctions against Russian companies and businesspeople being announced by the US on 29th January 2018.
Ambassador Huntsman instead says that only a report will be published on that day

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