Yuan and ruble to replace dollar in Pakistan
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News Date: September 29, 2022Pakistan, among other nations, is brushing off the US dollar due to sanctions by making way for the Chinese yuan and Russian ruble.
The President of the Trade House of Pakistan Association Zahid Ali Khan said on Tuesday: replacing the US dollar with Russian rubles and Chinese yuan is a potential plan Pakistan is considering.
Sources: almayadeen
Delaware Supreme Court finds vote by mail, same-day registration unconstitutional
The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday struck down recent vote-by-mail and same-day voter registration legislation, overturning a signature achievement by Gov. John Carney and Democrat lawmakers.Sources: yahoo
Ripple XRP joins ISO 20022 The Global Payment Standard
Cross-border payments network Ripple (XRP) announced that it has become part of the ISO 20022 Standards Body, becoming its first member focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT). The new payment messaging standard is set to replace SWIFT MT messages as the standard format for cross-border and high-value payments.Source:coinspeaker.com
Russia to test payments in digital currencies
Russia is ready to start testing payments in digital currencies with China or countries of the Eurasian Economic Union and will promote the idea with its partners,Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told state media in remarks published on Monday.
Siluanov: "We discussed this topic at the end of last year at the inter-ministerial dialogue."
He restated that any foreign acts involving Russian assets would be met with an equal response from Moscow.
Introducing the new global financial system
Answers provided by Sergey Glazyev, Russian Geoeconomics Tzar:The world's new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources.
And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.
Transition to the new world economic order will likely be accompanied by systematic refusal to honor obligations in dollars, euro, pound, and yen.
In this respect, it will be no different from the example set by the countries issuing these currencies who thought it appropriate to steal foreign exchange reserves of Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, and Russia to the tune of trillions of dollars.
Full article: Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle
Zimbabwe interested in SWIFT alternatives
The Zimbabwean government would like to become a member of the BRICS economic bloc, the speaker of the ruling party ZANU-PF said on Wednesday."We made it clear that we would like to become a member of the BRICS," Christopher Mutsvangwa told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency.
The official added that his country is interested in developing alternatives to the Western-dominated SWIFT payment network.
In his view, BRICS could contribute to that.