Today the Moscow City Court considered the complaint of the founder of Baring Vostok Michael Calvey and left him under arrest. This decision was expected: over the past days, the court rejected the appeals of all the other defendants in the Baring case. Much more surprising were the revelations of Sherzod Yusupov, who wrote a statement against them. For the first time since the beginning of the high-profile trial, he gave a long interview to TASS, where he outlined his version of events.

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has announced that he is ready to charge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bribery and fraud. This significantly reduces Netanyahu's chances for re-election after the parliamentary elections on April 9, writes Reuters. But, despite the decline in popularity of the Likud party, which dominates the Knesset, the chances of the Israeli prime minister for a fourth term in a row remain, and he himself is not obliged to resign and does not intend to.

In which banks do you have accounts - the system of quick payments from the Central Bank launched today will help to find out. Today, the system of quick payments (SBP) of the Central Bank is an analogue of the Sberbank service, according to which the money can instantly be sent by phone number. The Central Bank expected that by the time of launch a dozen of the largest banks would join its system, but not all of them were ready for this.

As soon as the main competitor - Samsung - introduced a smartphone with a folding screen, Apple decided to show that it would have the same development. Perhaps even better: the company's engineers figured out how to reduce wear on the flexion zone in a simple way. We can assume that in a couple of years we will see a folding iPhone, especially since Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wants such a gadget . More. 9to5Mac has published Apple's patent for a foldable display for gadgets.

Independent security researcher Bob Dyachenko discovered a list of 2.4 million high-risk clients (Dow Jones Watchlist, DJW) in the public domain on the ElasticSearch website. More. DJW is one of Dow Jones' key paid products and is widely used by banks and other organizations to assess the risk of new customers. It includes current and former politicians, people and companies under sanctions, involved in terrorism, financial crimes and otherwise of high interest.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined short video sharing service TikTok $5.7 million. The app is believed to have violated US children's privacy laws. TikTok has responded with an update: now young users will be able to watch and save other people's videos, but will not be able to publish their own. Meanwhile, the explosive growth in the popularity of the application was provided primarily by children and teenagers . More.

This morning, mobile banking of three Russian state-owned banks became unavailable at once - VTB, Otkritie and Rosselkhozbank. A similar failure last year could have been caused by attempts by Roskomnadzor to block the Telegram messenger. Now the regulator says it's not his fault. More. On large-scale failures of Internet banking at once in three state-owned banks, users began to complain on Thursday morning.

On Monday, February 25, the co-founder of the famous Soyuz Kontrakt company Mikhail Lyubovich died, the former vice-president of Soyuz Kontrakt Nikolai Kovarsky and ex-owner of the company Yuri Rydnik told The Bell. The second founder of Soyuz Kontrakt Alexei Goldstein died in June last year. In the 1990s, Lyubov and Goldstein was a legend of Russian business.

Sberbank has clarified its forecasts for the ruble exchange rate for the next two years. The updated forecast takes into account the risks from new US sanctions, analysts say. Read more. In December last year, Sberbank predicted the average ruble exchange rate in the range of 65–70 rubles/$. Now the bank expects that the average ruble exchange rate in 2019 will be 68.5 rubles/$, and in 2020 - 69 rubles/$, follows from its presentation .

Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko and State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin today introduced a draft law on "mortgage holidays" to the State Duma. It is possible that a temporary benefit for a few will result in a rise in the cost of mortgages for all. More.

Issue Theme - The Art of Cyber ​​Warfare During the mid-term congressional elections in November 2018, the US Cyber ​​Command conducted a special operation, turning off access to the Internet for the American sector of the Russian "troll factory". This is certainly the news of the week, especially since Donald Trump personally gave the order, and the US military did everything to pretend that they used a superweapon. It quickly became clear that this was not the case .

The main news of the week is the first US cyber attack against Russia: the Pentagon and the NSA were able to penetrate the networks of the St. Petersburg “troll factory” of Yevgeny Prigozhin. For this, the Americans did not need any secret cyberweapon - the methods of social engineering and the negligence of the employees of Prigozhin's organization were enough. Such tools are typical for most hacks.

On Thursday, the Moscow City Court considered the complaint of the defense of the founder of Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey, about his arrest and left the preventive measure unchanged. Main: Calvey spoke about the claims of Baring Vostok to the co-owners of Vostochny for 17.5 billion rubles Avetisyan and Yusupov file a new lawsuit against Baring in Russia The court left Calvey under arrest The founder of Baring Vostok was not brought to court.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong -un. Photo from the White House account on Twitter The two -day summit of US President Donald Trump and the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un in Vietnam ended in failure. The parties not only could not agree on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but finished the meeting ahead of time, canceling the planned joint dinner and a press conference. For the journalists present at Hanoi, this was a surprise, given the optimistic mood of the summit participants.

At the end of 2018, the co-owner of Vostochny Bank Artem Avetisyan filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The defendant is Nebokhod-media LLC, which owns The Moscow Post online publication. Avetisyan demands to remove from the site two articles under the headings “Swan song of the Vostochny bank” and “Vostochny bank lost its guarantees!”.