Abstract
The financial system is an essential component of the operation and development of both global economic relations and the economies of individual countries and/or their alliances. Despite its apparent self-sufficiency in terms of promoting (or counteracting) economic processes, at any given time it reflects, on the one hand, a certain geopolitical situation and, on the other hand, the achieved level of scientific and technological development. The impact on the financial system of such “external” factors and circumstances, as a rule, is quite complex, often may not coincide in time and have different orientation.
