The EU may disconnect several more Russian banks from SWIFT at the end of February, writes Reuters. The new restrictions will be included in the 10th package of sanctions, which is planned to be published by February 24. @banksta
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???? Banksters from Alpha are now paying an increased interest on the balance without additional conditions to everyone who opens an Alfa-Card debit card in January. 10% on savings accounts is not the only plus of a debit card, it also has free service forever. @banksta
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Crypto.com and Blockchain.com have announced hundreds of layoffs due to the effects of the ongoing crypto winter. The Crypto.com exchange announced the dismissal of 20% of employees, the Blockchain.com platform will reduce almost 30% of the staff. @banksta
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Bloomberg learned about the different decisions of the two banks on sanctions against Potanin. After the sanctions imposed against Potanin, the American JPMorgan stopped working with the businessman’s fund, but Goldman Sachs continues to provide banking services to him. @banksta
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The Russians were advised to prepare for higher taxes due to falling budget revenues from oil. The budget needs oil at $115, while the actual price is below $50. To close the “hole”, the government may go to “increase in tax collections”, banking analysts say. @banksta
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To avoid sanctions, Alexander Gerko and the XTX Markets fund donated 1 million euros to create a new mathematical center in Ukraine. Earlier, XTX Markets, one of the largest algorithmic market makers in the world, filed a lawsuit against the British accounting firm Mazars, accusing it of discrimination and refusing to pay salaries to its employees. According to the lawsuit, the defendant refused to work with XTX Markets due to the fact that the founder and owner of the company has Russian citizenship. The company was founded by Alexander Gerko, a mathematician from Russia, who has been a Russian citizen and, since 2016, a British citizen, writes FT. Now Gerko owns at least 75% of the company. @banksta
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According to official statistics, the consumer price index, measured by a basket of 500 goods and services, added 11.94% over the year. Compared to 2021, inflation accelerated by a third, compared to 2020 – by 2.5 times and reached a record high over the past 7 years. @banksta
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned in a letter to Congress of the threat of a sovereign default in June if lawmakers do not raise the national debt ceiling. According to the minister’s calculations, the existing $31.381 trillion borrowing limit will be exhausted next Thursday, January 19, but accumulated cash reserves and “extraordinary measures”, including the suspension of contributions to pension and social funds, will allow the country to hold out at least until the summer. @banksta
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Industrial production in Europe is growing, despite the strongest energy crisis in 50 years. Production has shifted to the science-intensive segment. The pharmaceutical industry is growing by 33%, the production of computers and electronics by 18%, oil and gas services increased by 15%, the production of vehicles by 12%, electrical equipment by 9.6%, mechanical engineering by 5.8%. Although not the highest marginal production (metallurgy, oil and gas, textiles, paper) is declining. In Russia, 90% of exports consist of low-added products. It supplies raw materials for the production of low-margin products to India and China. @banksta
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Cryptominer from the Irkutsk region Sergey Yakovlev lost three court cases with Irkutskenergosbyt. He tried to challenge the decision to recover 28 million rubles from him. Yakovlev set up a 630 kW mining farm at his summer cottage and consumed 75% of all electricity in the village. The court decided that the cost of electricity should be recalculated according to the commercial tariff – 4-5 times more. The defendant himself states that all the electricity was used to heat the water in the two pools. @banksta
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@bitkogan celebrates its first anniversary. The project of Evgeny Kogan, one of the oldest author’s telegram channels about the economy, is 5 years old. Congratulations to our esteemed colleagues on the milestone date and we wish success to their new project about fin. literacy @bitkogan_prosto!
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Oil production in Russia will decrease this year by 1.5 million barrels per day compared to 2022, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Sanctions on petroleum products are likely to disrupt their production and exports from Russia. @banksta
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Foreign airlines around the world are facing a shortage of aircraft parts due to the rejection of Russian titanium by Western aircraft manufacturers. A global disruption in the supply of some aircraft parts caused by the Ukrainian military crisis was announced by the head of the African airline Kenya Airways, Allan Kilavuka. All airlines around the world are facing these issues, not just Kenya Airways, Allan Kilawuka pointed out. @banksta
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The number of Russians below the poverty line has been declining since the spring of 2022, writes Bloomberg. The rise in social benefits increased the real income of the poorest 10% by almost 14%, making them the only group whose incomes outpaced inflation. The poorest are getting smaller. @banksta
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About 8 million Russians cannot leave the country because of debts, follows from the data of the FSSP. This indicator almost doubled the value of the previous year and became a record for the last 15 years. @banksta
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Telephone scammers steal money from Russians to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, such conclusions were made by the journalists of the Rossiya 24 TV channel, according to monitoring data from law enforcement agencies and Sberbank. Fraudsters use drops – dummies who participate in the intermediate transfer of money. In a conversation with the host of the Duty Station program, Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank, said that fraudulent call centers are still mainly located on the territory of Ukraine, but over the past year the number of calls has decreased. Kuznetsov also clarified that Sber, together with law enforcement officers, analyzed in detail the actions of telephone scammers, posting the results of the analysis on the Kibrary cyber literacy portal. @banksta
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Turkey will not join Western sanctions against Russia, these sanctions will harm the Turkish economy more than Russia, and the anti-Russian measures taken by the West were not effective – the official representative of Turkish President Erdogan Ibrahim Kalin. @banksta
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Credit Suisse plans to lay off more than 10% of its European investment bankers this year, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs in London and Zurich, the Financial Times reported. A wave of job cuts hit the investment banking world as a recession looms and income plummets. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse Group AG and Barclays Plc have either laid off employees or announced they plan to do so in the coming months. @banksta
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The economic forum in Davos this year will not include Russian billionaires, who were regular attendees of the event, Bloomberg reported. Chinese businessmen will not come to Switzerland either. In total, more than 100 billionaires have registered for the forum, most of them from the United States. @banksta
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Bloomberg: The European Union will have to replace about 600,000 barrels of diesel per day, and Russia will need to find new buyers to make up for lost supplies, store fuel on ships or cut production at its refineries. @banksta
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Economists polled by the WSJ believe that there is a 61% chance of a recession in the US in the next 12 months. Deceleration of inflation in December to a minimum of more than a year had almost no effect on their expectations. @banksta
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According to Davide Tabarelli, president of the Italian analytical company Nomisma Energia, the situation in the field of energy supply in Italy remains critical, and the embargo on Russian oil will lead to higher fuel prices, which will become an “economic, social and political problem.” He believes that the EU has paid 10-15 times more than normal prices. @banksta
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The stablecoin USDT (Tether) overtook Visa and Mastercard in terms of transaction volume for the first time last year. The stablecoin payment network processed $18.2 trillion worth of payments in a year. That’s more than Mastercard, which handled $14.1 trillion, and Visa, which handled $7.7 trillion in annual volume. @banksta
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The State Duma proposed to allow spending mother’s capital to pay for housing and communal services. Due to the increase in tariffs, families simply do not have enough money to pay for communal services. @banksta
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The Central Bank of Iran is considering the possibility, together with Russia, to create a certain token of the Persian region, which can be accepted as a means of payment in foreign trade settlements instead of the dollar, ruble and Iranian rial. @banksta
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The share of compensation in the form of repairs under OSAGO policies fell to almost 0% by the end of last year. At the same time, in the first months of last year, the market indicator was 9-11%. Due to a shortage of spare parts, services cannot meet the requirements for the timing and quality of repairs under OSAGO, and cash payments to customers are often not enough for a full restoration. @banksta
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The United States is ready to supply natural gas to Europe at a price of $380 per thousand cubic meters, but for this it is necessary to conclude long-term contracts, Toby Rice, the head of the largest gas producer in the United States – EQT, said. In the United States, liquefied gas costs about $270 per thousand cubic meters. @banksta
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Russia is negotiating a visa-free regime with 12 countries, Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov said. Among them are Mexico, Malaysia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Zambia. @banksta
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Coal production in Russia increased by 0.3% in 2022, to 442 million tons. This is actually a record level, equal to the level of 2020, while export supplies decreased by 7.6%, taking into account EU sanctions. @banksta
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DonStroy is the only one of its kind… … in the ninth annual RBC rating – this time for 2021. DonStroy entered the TOP-50 of the fastest growing companies in the country and turned out to be the only representative of the Moscow development market on the list. The rating is based on the dynamics of revenue for the last three years. RBC experts reviewed enterprises and firms from 13 industries. Applicants were selected from the SPARK database and open sources. From the construction industry, only three companies from all over Russia made it to the final list. For the period from 2019 to 2021 The developer’s revenue increased annually by 35.7%, 40.2% and 43.3%, respectively. And for a reason: ▪️ In 2018, the implementation of the Lights, Event and River complexes in Ramenki began. ▪️ In 2021, sales started in the Ostrov project in the Mnevnikovskaya floodplain. ▪️ Previously launched projects were actively developed: “Heart of the Capital” and “Symbol”. ▪️ Today, five projects are on sale, where 2,358 lots are presented. ▪️ In total, the developer’s portfolio includes more than 3.6 million sq. m. m of real estate.
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Abnormal frosts down to minus 20 degrees are observed in Uzbekistan. In the capital, interruptions in electricity, heating and gas supply. Residents began to go out and cook food on fires. Mobile heating points are opening in the city. @banksta