Alfa-Bank analysts believe that the possible divorce of Yandex with Sberbank may end with a merger with Tinkoff Bank A possible divorce of Yandex with a Sberbank in a joint venture on an online trading can lead to a change in the picture of the Russian fintech market.

The future of the cryptocurrencies backed by the giants of the internet is in jeopardy. This time, the threat is specific, and it comes from the US authorities. What happened The U.S. House Financial Services Committee is considering a bill to ban "big tech companies" — with average annual revenues in excess of $25 billion — from providing financial services. If they do not comply, they face a fine of $1 million per day.

The owner of New Stream, the ex-owner of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery, Dmitry Mazurov, was arrested for two months by the Tverskoy Court of Moscow. He is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale. The case was initiated on July 12 at the request of the President of Sberbank German Gref, Interfax quotes the materials of the case. We are talking about a credit line from Sberbank to the Antipinsky Oil Refinery for $100 million, $29 million of which is about 1.8 billion rubles.

Analysts at Alfa-Bank justified the purchase by Yandex of up to 25% of Tinkoff Bank, writes Forbes. In their opinion, Arkady Volozh's dialogue with Oleg Tinkov at SPIEF and The Bell's publication on Yandex's possible withdrawal from the joint venture with Sberbank testify to the real prospects for the deal. The most likely scenario is the purchase by Yandex of 21-27% of the capital of TCS (the holder of 100% of the shares of Tinkoff Bank), including part of the share of Oleg Tinkov.

Roskomnadzor (RKN) sent a notification to the social network Facebook about the inclusion in the unified register of prohibited information of a page with "an obscene interpretation of the name of the country and the image of a swastika against the background of the coat of arms of Russia." The Prosecutor General's Office demanded the immediate removal of the page. Last week, a page with similar content, at the request of the RKN, was removed by VKontakte.

The head of the FSB special unit "Alpha" Valery Kanakin was dismissed from his post, said the honorary president of the International Association of Veterans of the anti-terror unit "Alpha" Sergei Goncharov. This is reported by Interfax . Goncharov said that Kanakin was fired "some time ago," but he said that this was not connected with the detention of eight special forces officers on suspicion of robbery.

The case against the ex-owner of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery and the chairman of the New Stream group of companies Dmitry Mazurov, who was detained at the airport on Saturday, was initiated at the request of Sberbank, the Moscow agency writes . It was to Sberbank that at the end of 2018, Mazurov’s main asset, the Antipinsky Oil Refinery, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, was transferred for debts. In June 2019, it was sold to the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR.

A large-scale failure in the operation of the European satellite navigation system Galileo has not yet been eliminated, although its work was interrupted on Friday 12 July. The system cost the EU about 10 billion euros and is still in pilot mode since 2016. This is the first such serious system failure of Galileo. On the operator's website , the status of 24 out of 26 satellites is listed as "unavailable" or "not used".

Sberbank has developed a model that allows companies to forecast revenue based on transaction data, even if they have never published reports, the bank’s press service reported . The model covered all Russian individual entrepreneurs and legal entities - about 8 million. It is based on 1,000 features and provides a forecast of revenue for the year nine months before the official publication.

The dynamics of China's GDP in the second quarter of 2019 turned out to be the worst in 27 years - since the start of the statistical series in March 1992, follows from the data of the National Bureau of Statistics. This indicator decreased to 6.2% (yoy) from 6.4% in the first quarter. The main reason is the trade war with the US, economists say. of the same today The President of the United States Donald Trump boasted .

The investigation is checking the ex-deputy head of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) Valery Miroshnikov for involvement in the case of the ex-head of the banking department of the FSB Kirill Cherkalin, writes RBC . According to the publication, Miroshnikov is in the status of a witness, but he did not appear for interrogation when called by the investigator, having gone abroad for treatment.

Candidates for the Moscow City Duma who participated in the protest action on Sunday, July 14, have not yet been denied registration, said the chairman of the Moscow City Electoral Committee, Valentin Gorbunov, on the air of Ekho Moskvy. He is ready to meet with them today at 15.00 Moscow time in the presence of journalists. Quote: “Today is Monday, a working day, everyone who wants can come. I will receive them all, well, half a day has already passed, while no one has come.

The Moscow mayor's office's attempt to "dry up" the Moscow City Duma elections by tightening the requirements for candidates and then removing from the elections those who met the new requirements, led to the city parliament elections, which had never generated much interest, becoming a new center of protest activity. Protest action.

"Yandex.Taxi" and the largest regional taxi aggregation service "Vezet" should have received a written consent from Mail.ru Group to buy assets, but did not do this, said. Mail.Ru In 2018, Mail.Ru provided Lucky with a convertible loan, one of the conditions of which was the ability to veto the sale of assets. The holding has not yet given its permission for the deal. In "Lucky" they claim that they do not violate the agreements.

Rumors have begun in the car market that foreign automakers, amid a sharp drop in the market, are beginning to discuss reducing production in Russia, writes Kommersant , citing one source. While automakers are compensating for the fall by rising prices, new cars have already risen in price by 10% since the beginning of the year. Reducing production.