Russia says JPMorgan stops processing its grain payments

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that U.S. bank JPMorgan had this week stopped processing payments for the Russian Agricultural Bank as Moscow demanded action, not promises, from Washington to help Russian grain and fertilizer reach global markets.
39% : The United Nations declined to comment.
37% : "The direct channel between the Russian Agricultural Bank and JPMorgan, which the West and the United Nations tried to present as a working alternative to SWIFT, was closed on Aug. 2," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted by Russian media as saying.
37% : The United Nations has argued that the deal helped everyone because it brought prices down 23% from a record high in the weeks following Russia's invasion.(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, Daphne Psaledakis, Simon Lewis.
36% : It was cut off by the European Union in June last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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