13 October 2014 – Moscow Exchange and Bank of China have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at expanding collaboration between the Russian and Chinese financial markets. Bank of China President Chen Siqing and Moscow Exchange CEO Alexander Afanasiev signed the agreement during an official visit between the Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers.

A leading Russian financial events website Finparty.ru has published an article on the recent expert discussion organised by ARFI (Investor Relations Managers' Association) in Bloomberg's Moscow office on 15 July 2014. The discussion focused on financial markets in South East Asia.

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has recently released new rules to simplify the approval process for foreign investments and delegate more approval powers to local authorities. The Administrative Measures for the Approval and Record Filing of Foreign Investment Projects to replace the interim measures issued in 2004 will go into effect on 17 June 2014.