The Central Bank will again tighten the requirements for banks on unsecured consumer loans, writes RBC. This time the regulator will raise it by 3o p.p. premiums on risk ratios for loans that banks will issue after April 1. According to the Central Bank, the decision applies to loans issued at rates ranging from 10 to 30%. The last time the Central Bank raised them on September 1, but failed to slow down the growth of lending. More.

The founder of the Anderson network, Anastasia Tatulova, spoke on Facebook about the capture of a Moscow cafe near the Tulskaya metro station by “bandits”. More. As Tatulova said, the cafe, for the rent of which she pays money, was “captured by bandits” a week ago: “The premises have been captured by bandits. The entrance is guarded by a private security company.

The Central Bank demanded that the former owners of the Promsvyazbank of the Ananiev brothers compensate hundreds of billions of damage. Responsibility with them can be divided by top managers Promsvyazbanka Dmitry Ananiev on the forum "Rossiya Russia" in September 2017.

Promsvyazbank filed a lawsuit for 282.2 billion rubles (more than $4 billion) with the Moscow Arbitration Court against the former leadership, the Ananyev brothers, writes Vedomosti , citing a statement of claim (it has not yet been published in the filing cabinet ). In 2018, Forbes estimated the fortune of each of the brothers at $0.7 billion. Claim details.

Citigroup is cutting its team of analysts in Moscow, Bloomberg writes , citing sources familiar with the situation. Two out of four specialists will be fired, including consumer market analyst Brady Martin, who has worked at the bank for more than 8 years. More. The second analyst could be transferred to the bank's London office, one of the sources said. The ratio of foreign banks to the Russian market has deteriorated due to weak economic growth and the threat of sanctions, the agency said.

In 2019 and 2020, all landfills in the Moscow region will be closed, said the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov. Quote: “ A whole special system of recycling has been created - the removal and processing of garbage. Instead of 38 landfills, which we will completely close in 2019 and 2020 (that is, we will not have landfills at all in the Moscow Region over the next two years), we are building modern waste processing complexes.

The recruiting service Headhunter recorded an increase in the number of vacancies and an increase in the level of salaries in Russia in 2018, follows from a company study. As expected, wages grew fastest in the IT sector, while software development paid the best. In 2019, a massive revision of salaries should not be expected, 25% of Russian companies have already stated that they do not intend to change anything.

Employees of a cafe and two restaurants in Geneva who found more than €95,000 in large banknotes in May and June last year will be able to keep the money, a spokesman for the said . Geneva prosecutor's office Read more . The story began on May 11, 2017. On the morning of this day, employees of the UBS bank branch in the center of Geneva complained about clogged toilets. It turned out that €40,000 in torn banknotes did not let the water through.

The Slack messenger began blocking user accounts that are associated with countries and regions under US sanctions, TechCrunch reports . The problem affected those who do not live in the region from the Black List. In order to fall under the restriction, it is enough to go to the messenger from blocked jurisdiction at least once in recent years (for example, Crimea). Read more. The company blocked users without preliminary warning.

It is almost impossible to build a new business in Russia in 2018 without state participation. Money is from state banks, state corporations invest in startups, and the largest contracts in the public procurement system. But working with state money is difficult and dangerous. Is it worth it to contact? NTECHLAB three years ago became famous for the fact that its technology for recognizing faces turned out to be more effective than that of Google.

Facebook goes into finance. The company is developing a cryptocurrency that will allow you to transfer money through the WhatsApp messenger (owned by Facebook), Bloomberg reports , citing knowledgeable sources. The company plans to launch a new project in India. More. Facebook's cryptocurrency rate will be pegged to the US dollar to be less subject to market volatility, the agency's interlocutors say. This type of cryptocurrency is called a stablecoin.

YouTube blocked the recording of the broadcast of Vladimir Putin's conference on Alexei Navalny's Navalny LIVE channel for several hours for copyright infringement, the politician said in his telegram channel. Read more . Navalny claims that Channel One filed a complaint due to the fact that Maria Kim, the host of the TV channel , appears in the broadcast frame .

The Citimobil taxi service put on Yandex.Taxi cars covers with the inscription “He left for the Citimobil, it turned out cheaper,” writes vc.ru. Photo of Citimobil Read more. The covers were worn on December 21 for several cars in different areas of Moscow - at the stations, in squares, offers, including near Yandex. The company decided to repeat the joke of Yandex.Taxi, when he put covers on 8 ordinary cars in Sochi in April 2016 to attract new customers. Quote .

The Ozon online retailer launched the Ozon.Invest platform in test mode, where individuals can lend money to small and medium-sized businesses, learned Vedomosti from Nikita Saigutin, head of the Digital Finance division at Ozon. The yield on loans announced by the company is significantly higher than bank rates on ruble deposits. However, this is a more risky activity, since the funds invested by investors are not insured. More.

As of mid-December, China has made 35 successful launches, the US - only 30. This made the country a leader in space launches. More. China's success is the result of a 2014 decision by the country's authorities to allow private investment in space. China's space program is ambitious and not limited to commercial launches. In January 2019, a Chinese rover is due to land on the far side of the Earth's satellite.