The Bangladeshi government has banned 69 Russian ships from entering its ports in line with EU and US sanctions. Vessels will not be able to deliver cargo, stop for refueling, anchor or use sea lanes in the area. The restrictions will affect the construction of the country’s largest energy facility, the Rooppur nuclear power plant, which is being built with the support of Moscow. @banksta
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The Russian Union of the Travel Industry, citing tour operators, pointed out that out of 27 countries in the Schengen zone, only eight accept documents from Russian tourists, and multiple visas are rarely issued and only to a “narrow circle of people.” @banksta
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VTB Deputy Chairman Anatoly Pechatnikov told what will happen to the lending market this year. The total portfolio of loans to individuals will exceed a record 30 trillion rubles. According to the bank, the increase will be 11%. VTB itself intends to drive the market. Mortgages will show growth – sales may exceed 5 trillion rubles, which is higher than in 2022. The main demand will be for secondary housing, new buildings will occupy about 35-40% in the sales structure and interest in individual housing construction will grow – the volume of loans here may increase by 25-50%. Issuance of car loans will grow by 40% in a favorable macroeconomic situation, up to 1 trillion rubles. Used cars will account for up to 88% of all transactions. @banksta
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The former top manager of the law firm Baker McKenzie, who left Russia, sued compensation for wrongful dismissal. The Moscow court recovered more than 35 million rubles in favor of Igor Makarov. “We will see more than one similar lawsuit from former partners of international consulting firms,” his lawyer said. @banksta
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The leader of Turkey’s right-wing opposition Good Party (İyi Parti), Meral Akşener, during an inspection in the earthquake-hit province of Hatay called for a ban on the sale of land and real estate to foreigners, T24 reported. @banksta
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$788 million has been withdrawn from Binance in the last 24 hours. Investors are taking their money back amid yesterday’s news about the actions of regulators against Paxos, the issuer of the Binance USD stablecoin. @banksta
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Contribution to offices among investor trends in 2023 Once again, commercial space is reaching the peak of popularity among investors. Now there are quite attractive offers on the market, and in top projects, in which the projected growth by the time construction is completed can be up to 40%. Of course, the most interesting among them are located in Moscow City. Now, among such projects in terms of price / location / quality, iCITY business skyscrapers from MR Group are in the lead – these are two class A office towers: a 61-story Space Tower (258 meters) and a 34-story Time Tower (130 meters). The project is in high investment demand throughout its implementation, which is accompanied by interesting offers from MR Group, the company has launched an interest-free installment plan for the purchase of office blocks. Until the end of March 2023, investors have a great opportunity to fix an attractive lot price for all formats of office blocks in the Space high-rise tower, having 30% of the cost. The expected increase in the cost of the project by the time of delivery is projected at 40%. An important feature of the skyscrapers is that now it is the only office project offered on the open market in the Moscow City cluster. Construction is underway at the level of the 30th floor and the glazing of the facades has already begun, which allows us to imagine the scale of the project and the features of the architectural concept. According to NF Group experts, despite the fact that Moscow-City facilities were largely occupied by foreign companies, and the rotation of tenants affected this market more, the location continues to be one of the most popular, while iCITY is still the only a new project within Moscow City with retail sales of office space. At the same time, the share of Class A vacant premises still remains below the average for the market of the capital and amounts to 5.4%, with an average level of 13% in 2022.
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Bloomberg learned about the disagreement of creditors to postpone the debt of Naftogaz. A group of creditors rejected Naftogaz’s proposal for restructuring, as it believes that the Ukrainian company is able to make payments. @banksta
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In Moscow, a Cameroonian was caught selling “magic” black paper that can turn into real money. The swindler found a gullible man on social networks and told how to increase savings. The secret of the trick was simple: the Cameroonian covered several banknotes with black paint, and washed it off during the shooting. For a personal meeting that took place later, he brought no longer colored money, but the most ordinary paper, for which he took $ 23,000. @banksta
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Oilmen in Russia drilled wells to a total depth of 28,000 km in 2022, the highest figure in ten years. The total number of wells in Russia increased last year by 7% to over 7,800, and most key oil companies outperformed 2021 results, according to Bloomberg. @banksta
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Russian deposits abroad tripled in 2022. As of January 1, 2023, fellow citizens kept 6.63 trillion rubles in foreign banks. rubles or 94.3 billion dollars. In 2022, Russians replenished their deposits by $63.7 billion. This is a record increase since the publication of statistics. @banksta
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VTB also announced the prospects for the deposit market. Among the main conclusions – an increase in the volume of classical liabilities by 6% to 38.78 million, increased interest among the population in short-term products and de-dollarization of deposits in favor of alternative currencies. VTB itself reported a 4% growth in its savings portfolio due to classic deposits, mostly in rubles – now their share in the bank’s deposit portfolio is 88%. In April, the bank will launch another deposit option – a constructor with the ability to independently choose the terms and conditions of the product. @banksta
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Kazakhstan has increased the transit of coal through Russia. The bulk of the coal was shipped in the direction of seaports, in particular, the ports of Latvia increased shipments. The EU in August imposed an embargo on the import of Russian coal. @banksta
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The European Union has included Russia in its list of countries that do not cooperate on tax disclosure. Countries that are blacklisted face reputational damage, increased scrutiny of their financial transactions and the risk of losing European Union funds. @banksta
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A miner from the Irkutsk region died on the night of February 14 due to a fire in a crypto farm. An entrepreneur mined cryptocurrency on the veranda of his bathhouse. Due to the high power consumed by the equipment, the wiring caught fire. The owner, who was at that time in the attic of the bathhouse, could not get out of the burning building. @banksta
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Yesterday it became known that the Qiwi payment service was included in the register of information dissemination organizers. Inclusion in the register does not cancel the banking secrecy regime: the company will not transfer data about users and their operations “automatically to the FSB”. We are talking about cases where, at the official request of law enforcement agencies, the company transmits data on electronic messages. @banksta
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The Svyaznoy network intends to apply to the Moscow Arbitration Court with a statement of its own bankruptcy. Sovcombank, Merlion LLC, RB Factoring LLC, Vimpelcom are listed among the retailer’s creditors. @banksta
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The Moscow Exchange warned of the risk of “outrageous” insider trading. The presence of reporting by a limited category of persons and its concealment from the entire market can lead to insider trading. And full public disclosure carries the risks of sanctions. Reports with withdrawals can become a compromise, the Central Bank and the stock exchange believe. @banksta
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Banksters from Tochka launched the ChatGPT chat bot for sellers on Tochka marketplaces, in partnership with Ecomcom, launched the chat bot with artificial intelligence ChatGPT. The bot will help sellers create cards describing the products they sell on online marketplaces. It is enough to send the name of the item or product to the telegram chat for the bot to generate a description of the product. In addition, in the message, you can add the exact characteristics of the product – the more characteristics the seller indicates, the better the bot generates an offer. The Tochka Marketplaces service helps merchants access online trading platforms, launch sales, evaluate income and expenses, create and transfer product cards, and manage orders in a single interface. In one window, you can manage sales on the online platforms of Ozon, Wildberries and Yandex Market. Advertising. JSC Tochka. Pb3XmBtzssT4gQR7WAxiFeAzvxbSBfUHCa1YjPe
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Banks returned to the victims of fraudsters the minimum amount in four years. In 2022, credit institutions returned only 4.4% of the stolen funds to victims of banking fraud — 618.4 million rubles. This is the minimum figure since 2019, follows from a review of the Bank of Russia on incidents during the transfer of funds. @banksta
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Goldman Sachs has completely withdrawn from the capital of the owner of CIAN The structures of the American Goldman Sachs Group have reported that they have reduced their stake in Cian PLC, which owns the CIAN real estate rental and trading service, to zero. @banksta
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The head of the IMF estimated at $40-48 billion the amount needed for Kyiv to support the economy, said the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva, reports Bloomberg. @banksta
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The Rwandan government has ordered banks to block transactions related to the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies. The National Bank refers to the unregulated status of crypto assets and that this leaves users with “no guarantees”. Although, most likely, the regulator is more concerned about the growing interest of Rwandan citizens in the crypt. @banksta
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The volume of immediate sales of Russian wheat by large traders last week amounted to 2.9 million tons, SovEcon experts calculated based on data from the National Commodity Exchange (NTB). This is the highest rate since the launch of the reporting system in 2021. The competitiveness of Russian wheat has risen on the back of a rally on the Chicago and Paris stock exchanges in recent weeks. In 2022, Russia harvested a record 104.4 million tons of wheat against 76.0 million tons a year earlier. @banksta
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Tinkoff Investments launched an online investment platform for businesses. For legal entities, everything is as simple as for “physicists” – now companies can open a brokerage account remotely and invest free funds through exchange overnights. In the future – instant currency conversion at the exchange rate, the ability to trade bonds, stocks and funds, hedging currency risks, automation of reporting and much more. @banksta
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Opening has ceased to be a shareholder of Qiwi. The bank withdrew from the list of owners by selling a package of 21 million shares – the price could be 9 billion rubles. The deal was closed in December. @banksta
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Sovcombank buys from Home Credit Bank the portfolio of the “Freedom” installment card, which is used by about a million customers. Earlier in June 2020, Sovcombank bought a portfolio of Conscience cards from the Qiwi group. Thus, only one installment card remained on the card market. Next time, Sovcom will be able to buy only a portfolio of credit cards and transform it into an installment card. “There will be no newspapers, no books, no cinema, no theaters – one continuous “Halva”!” @banksta
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The EU is discussing sanctions against Dubai-based SUN Ship Management. The Russian state company Sovcomflot is believed to have handed over almost its entire fleet of 92 vessels to SUN in April 2022, according to two diplomats. @banksta
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In 2022, Circle (USDC stablecoin) filed a complaint with the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) regarding the quality of Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin reserve management, according to Bloomberg. The issuer of a competing USDC asset pointed to an alleged under-collateralization of BUSD. @banksta
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In 2024, Russia may restrict the import of seeds of potatoes, wheat, sugar beets and other crops from “unfriendly countries”, this issue will be submitted to the subcommittee on customs and tariff regulation of the Ministry of Agriculture. The department explains this with the interests of food security, but farmers are afraid of lower yields. @banksta
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