© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A bull statue is pictured in an workplace at Danish Saxo financial institution in Copenhagen, January 22, 2015. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish funding financial institution Saxo Financial institution stated on Saturday it had terminated purchasers from Russia and Belarus in response to sanctions imposed on these nations following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“It’s a small variety of purchasers, and a call made on the idea of the harder sanctions imposed on the 2 nations because of Russia’s horrible invasion of Ukraine,” a spokesperson for the financial institution stated in a press release to Reuters.
As of Friday, clients from Russia or Belarus had been not capable of open new positions or enhance the scale of present ones. The terminations would take full impact on June 8, the financial institution stated.
Till then, these purchasers will nonetheless be capable of withdraw money and securities, however the transactions can be topic to elevated scrutiny, it added.
