If sanctions were going to have an effect on global reserve holdings, we presumably would have seen it by now. In the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has totally reoriented the U.S. approach to the war in Ukraine. A call with Vladimir Putin and ...

A group of legal experts sought to bolster the case for seizing frozen Russian central bank assets, arguing that such actions are allowed under international law given the scale of Russia’s continuing attacks in Ukraine. The European Union, the Group of ...

Donald Trump has almost single-handedly held up additional American aid to Ukraine, allowing Russia to regain momentum in its offensive. (It’s almost as if denying Kyiv weapons does not bring about peace!) One workaround gaining increasing traction in ...

Rebuilding Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion and a year of unrelenting Russian military assaults will require far more resources than can be obtained from just seizing Russian oligarchs’ assets. It’s time to go ...

After the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine last February, unprecedented economic sanctions against Moscow saw an estimated $350 billion in state assets, foreign reserves and oligarch property frozen by Western banks and officials. Nearly 12 months on ...

Geoffrey Goodell receives funding from the Peer Social Foundation, the Stellar Development Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (via the Alan Turing Institute). He is affiliated with the Bank of England CBDC Technology Forum, the British ...

Aaron MacLean hosts Mark Montgomery to discuss Venezuela’s shadow fleet, the cyber component of the Maduro raid, and the future of the United States Navy.