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Russia, China, other BRICs plan challenge to dollar with new reserve currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

By George Glover
Insider, New York
Friday, June 24, 2022

Russia is ready to develop a new global reserve currency alongside China and other BRICS nations, in a potential challenge to the dominance of the US dollar.

President Vladimir Putin signaled the new reserve currency would be based on a basket of currencies from the group's members: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

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"The matter of creating the international reserve currency based on the basket of currencies of our countries is under review," Putin told the BRICS Business Forum on Wednesday, according to a TASS report. "We are ready to openly work with all fair partners."

The dollar has long been seen as the world's reserve currency but its dominance in international currency reserves is waning. Central banks are looking to diversify their holdings into currencies like the yuan, as well as into non-traditional areas like the Swedish krona and the South Korean won, according to the International Monetary Fund.

"This is a move to address the perceived U.S.-hegemony of the IMF," ING's global head of markets Chris Turner said in a note. "It will allow BRICs to build their own sphere of influence and unit of currency within that sphere."

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https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dollar-dominance-russia-china-rouble-yuan-brics-reserve-currency-imf-2022-6

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