Telegram channel Bankst: messages from 17.02.2023

Russian winemakers are switching to brut because it is easier to produce. The production of sparkling wines in 2022 grew immediately by 42% year-on-year, to 6.1 million bottles. @banksta
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Portugal is closing its golden visa program, under which foreigners can obtain a residence permit in exchange for investments, buying real estate or creating new jobs. This was announced by Prime Minister Antonio Costa, reports EFE. The validity of already issued documents will be extended only if foreign buyers use the property as permanent housing for themselves and their descendants, or rent it out on a long-term lease, Costa stressed. @banksta
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Americans owe banks almost $1 trillion on credit cards. Americans’ credit card debt hit a record $986 billion on record since 1999. The total debt of households exceeded $16.9 trillion, follows from the report of the Fed Bank. @banksta
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Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, expects to pay fines to settle investigations by US law enforcement and regulatory agencies, Patrick Hillman, the site’s chief strategy officer, told the Wall Street Journal. According to him, Binance at the beginning of development was run by software engineers unfamiliar with corruption laws. @banksta
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Rents have risen sharply in Turkey’s western and southern regions as earthquake survivors have begun moving to safer parts of the country. As a result, prices jumped, for example, in Ankara by 30-50%, in Mersin by 100%. @banksta
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Big business with its contribution could support social and infrastructure spending of the budget, we are talking about 300 billion rubles – the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Siluanov. @banksta
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The SEC has declared LUNA and UST securities and filed charges against its founder, Do Kwon. He is accused of organizing the largest fraud with securities and cryptoassets, because of which investors lost over $40 billion. @banksta
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Parts for Western aircraft will be developed and produced in Russia. S7 Technics, together with Rosatom, has already begun to create various filters and brake discs. The airline is also looking for a replacement for paintwork materials. This was required due to the termination by foreign suppliers of service support for carriers of the Russian Federation against the backdrop of sanctions. @banksta
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The founder of the investment banking organization China Renaissance, Bao Fan, stopped communicating. Its shares collapsed by 50% in trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange on the morning of Friday, February 17, writes Bloomberg. CEOs in China often go missing when they become the subject of government investigations. @banksta
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The Golden Token, issued on the basis of digital financial assets (DFA), can be used by Russia in international settlements with its counterparties, said Vladimir Chistyukhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank. @banksta
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Attackers engaged in stealing funds from Russians by phone have been changing phone numbers to foreign ones since the end of last year in order to bypass the protection of mobile operators, Kommersant writes. At the same time, foreign numbers are visually disguised as Russian ones. For example, numbers with the +423 code belong to Liechtenstein, but “pretend” to be calls from the Primorsky Territory, the Turkish +905 code resembles the mobile numbering adopted in Russia, and Norway’s +472 is similar to the Belgorod region code. However, most often scammers used the codes of Japan and Korea +8 (1, 2) and the international code that is valid in Kazakhstan and Russia +7. Most unwanted calls at the end of 2022 came to Russians from numbers in Turkey, Kazakhstan and Iran. @banksta
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A failure on the YuMoney and YuKassa services left online stores unable to accept orders. YuMoney reported that the problem was in the network, the failure affected all YuKassa customers. @banksta
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New realities form a demand for the creation of innovative insurance products that will provide additional protection for assets and property. If the insurance market has adapted to the rise in prices for cars and parts for them by launching reduced mini-hull insurance programs, no one has yet offered products to support the mobilized. Helios Insurance Company has become a pioneer in this direction. “Helios” presents a new product – a voluntary insurance policy “Strong rear” in case of suspension of work and loss of income due to conscription for military service for partial mobilization. @banksta
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??????? The audience of the RZD Market electronic service exceeded 1,000 users. ➡️ Since the start of the online trading platform, more than 200 thousand tons of cargo have been transported, said ???? Deputy Head of the CFTTO Alexander Voroshnin. In the near future, the holding plans to expand the capabilities of the first railway marketplace. ???? Read more in the plot of RZD TV
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Russians opened almost 110,000 bank accounts in Georgia last year. In the first month of this year, $267.6 million was transferred to the country from Russia, which is 12 times more than in January 2022. @banksta
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Bulgaria fined Lukoil 34.6 million euros for price pressure. The Commission for the Protection of Competition in Bulgaria fined LUKOIL-Bulgaria 35 million euros for violating the law on protection of competition – abuse of a dominant position by exerting price pressure in the wholesale trade of motor fuels in the country. @banksta
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For years, Russian metallurgists have been reluctant to establish production of metal products, although they have always been the first candidates for the development of import substitution. For example, Russia still imports stainless steel. After losing exports, they drain assets and do not look for a way out. NLMK, the largest metallurgical group in the Russian Federation, which produced 14 million steel annually, put up for sale plants in the Urals and in the Kaluga region, Vedomosti reports. The contenders for the purchase are Evgeny Zubitsky’s holding and Ivan Demchenko’s Novostal-M. The amount of the transaction may be 75-100 billion rubles. @banksta
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After yesterday’s growth, the rates of crypto-currencies began to decline again. Yandex added crypto rates to its currency converter. Now the converter shows the cost of cryptocurrencies in rubles, dollars and other world currencies, and soon it will be possible to compare the cost of coins with each other. There are 143 cryptocurrencies available in the converter. @banksta
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In Krasnodar and Ufa, housing has risen in price most of all over the year. In Krasnodar, the price of a new building has increased by 21%, to an average of 142,000 rubles per square meter, Domclick said. The leader in the growth of the cost of secondary housing was Ufa, where the “square” added 22%. @banksta
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The Altai resort “Manzherok” predicts that in the winter season 22/23 it will receive about 180 thousand guests. This is 80% more than a year earlier. The management of the complex also clarified that the popularity of the resort is growing day by day – in 2022, for example, the average hotel occupancy for the entire year was 70%. Recall that Sber has been developing the Manzherok resort since 2012. During this time, it has become the largest year-round resort in Russia. Also, according to experts, Manzherok is becoming the ski capital of the country – various competitions are already held there. For example, the stage of the Russian Cup. @banksta
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Eurozone government bonds came under pressure on Friday after a series of strong economic data forced investors to rethink the trajectory of global interest rate hikes, sending short-term German bond yields to their highest since the financial crisis. The yield on Germany’s two-year debt – the most sensitive to changes in interest rate expectations – rose 5 basis points to 2.935%, the highest level since October 2008. The euro is threatened with a further decline in quotes. @banksta
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Today, Lufthansa planes do not fly due to strikes by airport workers. 2300 flights canceled, almost 300 thousand people stuck at 7 German airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg. @banksta
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A mysterious trader known as 50 Cent has bet millions on an explosion of stock market volatility. The trader may be betting heavily that the VIX, known as the Wall Street Fear Index, will rise. @banksta
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The Ministry of Agriculture plans to reduce import duties on cucumbers and tomatoes. The ministry is also discussing the possibility of increasing the duty-free quota for the import of tomatoes from Turkey. According to Rosstat, since the beginning of the year, cucumbers have risen in price by 58%, and tomatoes – by 32%. @banksta
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The payment of “voluntary contributions” by business, apparently, the matter is already almost resolved, the only question remains in what form it will take. But, as Dmitry Peskov said today, “the interaction between the country’s leadership and business, government and business is a two-way road.” And it is remarkable that the movement towards business began with an unexpected proposal from the Bank of Russia to provide companies that pay contributions with a write-off of part of their debt to state banks in a comparable amount. Sounds pretty healthy. This is much better than simply taking money from the business, depriving the company of hundreds of billions of rubles. At the same time, the Central Bank will not even need to lower the key rate. @banksta
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PickPoint has stopped sending new parcels from most cities in Russia – customers complain about the shutdown of parcel terminals throughout the country. The company is in financial difficulties due to a foreign shareholder. @banksta
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Former owner of Baltika Bank Oleg Vlasov received 17 years in prison in the case of the withdrawal of 46 billion rubles from the Russian Federation. According to the investigation, under the pretext of selling foreign currency, members of the criminal community transferred money in foreign currency to the accounts of BC Moldindconbank SA, which were opened, among other things, in the Bank of New York. Then the proceeds from transactions in rubles were debited from correspondent accounts of Russian banks in BC Moldindconbank SA. For this, false decisions of Moldovan courts were used in favor of foreign legal entities. Then the money was sent to foreign banks. @banksta
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Raiffeisen Bank International has limited Russian banks in foreign currency payments. This process was confirmed to Frank Media by a representative of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). Consistently reducing risks since the spring of 2022, RBI recently further reduced its correspondent network to five Russian banks, he said. “The rest of the Russian banks to which we provide correspondent services have received instructions regarding the individual maximum number of payments in US dollars and euros that RBI is ready to process,” the banksters said. @banksta
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Crypto exchange Binance is studying the issue of severing all relations with partner banks in the United States due to pressure from regulators, writes Bloomberg. The potential changes will not affect the operation of the US branch of the Binance US exchange – it will operate in accordance with local laws. @banksta
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In Balashikha, a 27-year-old girl jumped out of a window on the 23rd floor due to calls from collectors. She had a bank loan of 300,000 rubles. Friends claim that collectors regularly called her and her relatives and exerted psychological pressure. The girl’s psyche could not stand it, she wrote about this in a suicide note. @banksta