A Russian trader has been bailed after allegedly laundering $22 million through the London futures market A Russian broker working at a big global financial services company has been arrested as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering by a criminal gang after staff at Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, […]

Mirroring the escalation of tensions in and around Ukraine, the EU, US, Canada and other countries have broadened economic sanctions targeting Russia and certain Russian and Ukrainian persons very significantly. In recent days the EU and each of the other countries adopted separate but coordinated packages of further sanctions. Taken together these measures, and particularly […]