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INVESTING

By Carolyn Cohn and Lawrence White

LONDON (Reuters) -Russia’s global financial isolation intensified on Friday as the London Stock Exchange (LSE) suspended trading in its last Russian securities and some insurers withdrew cover from exporters over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Banks, investors and insurers have in recent days ratcheted up that pressure by exiting investments in Russia and halting the provision of their services.

The LSE said it had suspended global depositary receipts (GDRs), which represent shares in a foreign company, for eight Russian companies, including Magnit and Sistema, after freezing trading in 28 firms on Thursday.

The trading halts come as Britain, the European Union and the United States continue to roll out financial sanctions on Russia to prevent its companies from accessing Western markets.

In another turning of the screws on Moscow, trade credit insurers, who provide a financial safety net for exports and imports, are pulling back from covering businesses exporting to Ukraine and Russia given the risks of sanctions, high claims or missed payments, industry sources said.

The move in the nearly $3 trillion global market will heap further pressure on Russia’s already teetering economy.

In this last week, trade credit insurers will have paused supporting new risk for Ukraine and Russia,” said Nick Robson, global leader for credit specialties at insurance broker Marsh.

European Union officials are also examining curbing Russia’s influence and access to finance at the International Monetary Fund following the invasion, six officials told Reuters. [L2N2V71XO]

“For its part, Washington will continue to embrace multilateral sanctions, [and] target the wealth of Russian oligarchs as part of a pressure campaign,” Isaac Boltansky, policy director for brokerage BTIG wrote in a note on Friday.

INVESTORS OUT

British insurer and asset manager Royal London became the latest Western investor to say it will sell its Russian assets as soon as possible, after a rush of similar announcements in recent days.

We can’t trade these things anyway, but as soon as we can, we obviously intend to divest,” Royal London Chief Executive Barry O’Dwyer told Reuters.

The CEO of another major British investment group, Schroders, said on Thursday Russian stocks and bonds are now “in the realms of utterly uninvestable.

Swiss wealth manager Julius Baer has halted new business with wealthy Russians, two sources familiar with the bank’s operations told Reuters.

Some investors are however piling into funds linked to Russia, seeing current distressed levels as a potentially cheap entry point for Russian assets.

Deutsche Bank said it has been stress-testing its operations in Russia, where it employs some 1,500 workers in a major technology centre, as banks with a significant Russian presence grapple with the ramifications of its growing financial isolation.

(Reporting by Carolyn Cohn and Lawrence White, additional reporting by Michelle Price, Tom Sims and Frank Siebelt in Frankfurt, editing by Alexander Smith, Jonathan Oatis and David Gregorio)

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