German Gref and Elvira Nabiullina are arguing about the conditions for connecting Sberbank to the System of Fast Interbank Payments (FIP), launched by the regulator. The Central Bank is going to legally oblige all market participants to work through it - a bill on this has already been approved in the first reading. Only Sberbank is resisting - it already has a similar platform, and its share, according to the Central Bank, now accounts for 94% of all retail transfers.

If China and the US keep tariffs imposed in a year of trade war until 2021, the global economy will lose $600 billion from the war - 0.5% of global GDP, calculated Bloomberg . Of the two warring countries, China will lose more (0.8% of GDP), but the United States will not win either (-0.5%). The next opportunity to avoid these losses is the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in June in Japan.

Businessmen Boris Yordan and Andrei Bloch created the world's largest revenue of the marijuana manufacturer The co-founder of the Renaissance Capital and the ex-head of the NTV Boris Yordan and the former partner of Roman Abramovich on Sibneft Andrei Blokh suddenly became the kings of the world marijuana market. In early May, the American Curaleaf Holdings Yordan and Bloch closed the transaction to buy the Select Oils brand.

The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Mackenzie, who became the third richest woman in the world after a divorce, joined the charity campaign The Giving Pledge, invented by Warren Buffett, and will donate at least half of her fortune - that is, $ 17.5 billion to charity. Her husband, already the second the world ratings of billionaires for a year by a wide margin leading , does not join any campaigns, and spends money on charity with a scratch - which causes constant criticism.

The American company Curaleaf Holdings, a marijuana manufacturer, who belongs to the owner of the Renaissance Insurance, financier Boris Yordan and former Sibneft President Andrei Blokh, closed the deal to buy the Select Oils brand from Cura Partners. In revenue, the united company will be the largest in this sector in the world, says Yordan. What's happened?

On Monday Boris Titov, Commissioner for the Protection of Business Rights, presented Vladimir Putin with his annual report on the state of affairs with human rights in the business sector, supplemented by a closed survey by the Federal Security Service assessing the business climate in the country. The diagnosis is this: business itself believes that doing business in the country is unsafe, does not trust law enforcement agencies and is skeptical about the fight against corruption. Survey.

The Serbian army and special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were put on high alert on Tuesday after the aggravation of the situation in Serbian communities in the north of the partially recognized republic of Kosovo. What happened On Tuesday night, Kosovo special forces units in special vehicles entered the territories of four Serbian communities in the north of the province. 23 people were detained, including seven police officers.

The second bank in Russia by assets, VTB, has written a new development strategy until 2023. In terms of goals, it looks like a written-off homework of the leader - Sberbank, Vedomosti experts sneer: digital transformation, emphasis on user satisfaction, lifestyle platform, 100% of products online, 50% of remote sales and moving away from paper document flow. In 2019, VTB plans to earn about 200 billion rubles in net profit, and by 2022 - to reach 300 billion.

The Ministry of Economic Development has published a bill banning the provision of information from the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN) to third parties and fines for disseminating information from the register. Nominally, this is a measure against sites that resell incorrect extracts from the Unified State Register of Real Estate, but in reality it is a threat to the entire real estate market and anti-corruption investigations, Vedomosti writes .

Deripaska transforms the business due to rebranding. If the goal is to avoid sanctions, this will help little Oleg Deripaska. Sergey Savostyanov/TASS Sanctions with Rusal and En+ have been lifted, but the transformation of the business of Oleg Deripaska seems to be just beginning. As The Bell found out, one of the largest companies in its “basic element”, “Bazelzament”, this spring changed the name, trademarks, and at the same time the founders.

Sberbank President German Gref recently said that he is negotiating special conditions for Sberbank to join the Central Bank's fast payment system (FPS). "Kommersant" found out what it was about: the state bank wants to receive a share of all payments passing through it in the system. If the Central Bank insists on general conditions, the monopolist has the opportunity to make the accession formal.

The large company Bazelzament, which used to be included in the “basic element” of Oleg Deripaska, changed the name, trademarks, and at the same time the main owner, the Bell found out. Now the company representatives claim that it has nothing to do with either Deripaska itself or to sanctions. There are two versions-either Deripaska has come into an eating asset from the sanctions, or simply tried to hide it, lawyers say. Both will be easy to establish the US Treasury. Oleg Deripaska.

In Russia, a new aggravation of the fuel crisis. The government once again resorts to administrative and tax measures to force the oil workers to leave gasoline in Russia, they resist as much as possible, writes . Kommersant The publication learned the details of the meeting of oilmen with the Ministry of Energy and the Federal Antimonopoly Service on Friday, May 24.