Mail.Ru against Yandex, the most reliable bank and a portrait of the Russian top manager

Holding Alisher Usmanov aggravates competition with Yandex

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Mail.ru Group is negotiating the purchase of a large Russian car sharing car sharing service, The Bell found out. Now the largest player in this market is Yandex. Internet holdings continue to advance on each other's heels in each segment, which is easy to deliver.

• The fact that the Holding Alisher Usmanov agrees to buy YouDrive, the Bell told three people who knew about negotiations, and confirmed the interlocutor close to one of the parties to the deal. Mail.ru is interested in acquiring the current car sharing operator, the final decision has not yet been made, but the most likely object for acquiring - YouDrive, says one of them. The company will participate in the transaction with the financial partner who is engaged in the leasing of cars as a minority partner.
• Mail.ru goes to a very competitive niche. The Moscow Carcherying Market - the fastest growing in the world, wrote JPMorgan analysts last fall. Then the Moscow government totaled about 11.5 thousand cars in which users made more than 12 million trips in 9 months - twice as much as in 2017.
• The largest players in this market are Yandex.Drave (6500 cars), Delimobile (6000) and Belkacar (4050). YouDrive with 2.5 thousand cars (taking into account partners in the pool) is fourth. 60% of the service shares belongs to its founders Boris Golikov, Andrei Kuprikov and Alexei Nurdinov, 40%-the Moscow dealer Mercedes-Benz "Panavto", which provided the service of the first Smart cars, and then entered its capital.
• Since February 2018, when Yandex entered the car sharing market and began to aggressively increase the park of cars, the competition has grown sharply. Yandex.Drave managed to become the largest service in Russia in just a year. YouDrive, who began one of the first, by 2018, on the contrary, began to lag behind. Park size is a decisive car sharing factor. To withstand competition, all large companies will have to attract strategic investors.
• “If the deal [Mail.ru Group] will take place with one of the existing players, the market situation may change: if the company receives serious funding and put up several thousand cars, the market shares can be redistributed,” says The Bell's interlocutor in one of the major operators.

What am I to me?

Mail.ru Group and Yandex Running to the niches that are easily rejuvening. Over the past three years, each of the holdings bought a taxi and order delivery service. And the largest market in which they are going to fight is an online retail: “Yandex” builds its marketplace with a Sberbank, and Mail.ru with Alibaba. “This is not from the lack of imagination,” the top manager of one of the Internet holdings caused this in a conversation with The Bell: competition for customers is always good.

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MONEY

Less officials - more salary

Almost every new political cycle in Russia, by tradition, begins with administrative reform. There will be no exceptions this time: the Ministry of Finance proposes to seriously reduce the number of Russian officials in the next two years - by 10% in the central apparatus, by 15% in the territorial bodies. Otherwise, the system of remuneration at the civil service to the competitive level cannot be displayed, the first deputy Minister of Finance Tatyana Nesterenko explained. Experts recall that for every new reduction in officials to ministries and departments add new functions and the number of employees is growing again.

The most reliable banks

"Daughters" of foreign banks led the rating of the most reliable banks according to Forbes. In the top three - Unicredit Bank, Raiffeisenbank and Rosbank (part of the Societe Generale group). Following them are large Russian banks - Sberbank and VTB. Other “daughters” of foreign banks - Citibank, ING Bank, Nordea, HSBC and Terrings of Terrino also got into the top ten. In general, the most reliable banks over the year has become larger - this year 30 banks against 13 in the past fell into this category. With the highest risks, you can encounter, according to Forbes, in Baltinvestbank, Energotransbank, the Ring of the Urals, the United Capital, etc.

Everything goes according to plan

This Friday, the Central Bank will retain the key rate at the level of 7.75%, the economists surveyed by Vedomosti are sure. Preventive increase in bets in September and December worked, and the beginning of the year did not fail: there are no new serious sanctions yet, inflation, although it has accelerated above 5%, still remains lower than forecasts, the currencies of developing countries have increased by 2.6%, oil prices - 12%. If the matter goes on, the Central Bank will begin to reduce the bet this year, but definitely not now, experts say.

PRACTICE

Facebook without gender and age

Under the fire of public criticism on a variety of issues, Facebook takes steps to create the best version of himself. The social network began to deal with the discrimination of users in advertising. The changes will affect targeting - Facebook has already refused to configure it by nationality, the next step is the ban on tuning targeting by floor and age. This option was most often used by companies when hiring employees to work, real estate sellers or banks. The changes will be affected not only by the United States, but by all countries in which Facebook is present.

Portrait of the Russian leader

Uncertainty, alarming and with low stress resistance is a portrait of the Russian leader, at least, according to the results of a study published by HBR. More than 500 top managers from Russia took part in it. The verdict is this: domestic entrepreneurs are the exact opposite of their Western colleagues. They have bad things with performances in public and empathy, they need praise from the outside, depreciate their achievements, focus on mistakes, require a lot and constantly conflict with subordinates. Of the pluses - openness for coaching and development, perfectionism and significant theoretical background. From good news - the disadvantages also give rise to pluses: self -doubt spurns a constant desire to improve himself and business.

Irina Malkova