The largest IPO in history may be the placement of the operator of the billione payment system Alipay All the most important events of 2020, apparently, will take place in China. The deal of the year has every chance of becoming IPO Ant Group, the largest Chinese fintech company and the most expensive unicorn in the world. Today she applied for accommodation in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Shares of "Yandex" on the evening of August 25 again updated the historical maximum and for the first time overcame the mark of 5,000 rubles. At 20.38 Moscow time, they were traded on the Moscow Exchange at 5,004 rubles, having risen in price by 1.84%. The market capitalization of the company has grown to 1.589 trillion rubles. In recent months, Yandex shares have repeatedly updated their historical maximum.

Ant Group, China's largest fintech company and the world's most valuable unicorn, has filed for an IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai. For the deal, it can be valued at $225 billion, and it hopes to raise $30 billion - if it succeeds, Ant Group will break the record of the oil giant Saudi Aramco. The company will hold an IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai, write Reuters and Bloomberg . Their sources say that the company is going to place at least 10% of new shares.

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin will instruct the security committee to analyze the incident with Alexei Navalny. According to the speaker, this could be an attempt by foreign states to harm the health of a Russian citizen in order to create tension within Russia. According to Volodin, it is good that German Chancellor Angela Merkel responded and helped Navalny.

Great Britain, the first in the world to create tanks back in the First World War, may be the first in the world to completely abandon them, according to The Times. The British government believes that the money that would take the modernization of the Challenger-2 tanks would be better spent on the development of cyber weapons and space technology. Currently, the British Army is armed with 227 Challenger-2 tanks and 388 British-made Warrior heavy infantry fighting vehicles.

Former journalist of Kommersant and Vedomosti and adviser to the head of Roscosmos Ivan Safronov will be sent for a psychiatric examination, TASS reports citing sources. Safronov is accused of treason, since the beginning of July he has been in a pre-trial detention center. A TASS source close to the investigation reports that the FSB appointed Safronov a psychological and psychiatric examination at the V.P. Serbian.

One of Ukraine's leading politicians, leader of the Batkivshchyna party and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been hospitalized with the coronavirus. What is known about the state of Tymoshenko The infection of 59-year-old Tymoshenko became known on Sunday, August 23. “The test showed that Yulia Vladimirovna Covid-19. The condition is assessed as serious. Temperature up to 39,” wrote her spokeswoman.

Russian anti-monopoly officials have filed a case against the chocolate manufacturer Lindt - according to the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the company emphasizes “long-standing production traditions” in advertising, but the chocolate sold in Russia is not at all the same as in Western Europe.

Despite the apparent antagonism, the US and China do not refuse to implement the first phase of the trade agreement and are conducting normal consultations, writes WSJ. This is the second day of supporting global markets.

The Chinese taxi aggregator DiDi started working in Kazan on August 25, reports Vedomosti , citing a representative of Didi Mobility Rus. This is the first Russian city where the service was launched. about the imminent launch of a Chinese taxi aggregator in Russia, Earlier, RBC wrote citing sources in the market. They said that ads appeared on Avito looking for drivers for a new service.

from the US Dow Jones Industrial Average has been excluded ExxonMobil, the oil company ExxonMobil, . She has been on this list since 1928. Exxon's removal would leave Dow with only one energy company, Chevron, and solidify its dominance by technology companies. In addition to ExxonMobil, pharmaceutical company Pfizer and weapons supplier Raytheon will leave the index.

The Kremlin has found no reason to launch an investigation into the possible poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said . Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov Peskov said that first you need to determine the substance that could poison Navalny and fall into a coma, and then start an investigation. “There must be a reason for the investigation. First you need to find the substance, to establish what caused this condition.

Apple has been spared the need to restore Epic Games' Fortnite app to its App Store - a significant but not complete victory for the tech giant in a precedent-ridden dispute over the fairness of the high fees Apple charges for apps in its ecosystem. According to Bloomberg, this decision was made by US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

Investigators suspected Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoly Bykov of organizing another, third murder. It happened relatively recently - already in the 2000s: according to investigators, in the summer of 2004, Bykov instructed his acquaintance to kill a man, promising to pay $ 50,000. The name of the victim is not mentioned in the report of the Investigative Committee. It is only reported that he was 42 years old and was the founder of an industrial waste disposal company.

Six years later, the Rotenberg clan returned to first place in the ranking Forbes of the richest entrepreneurial dynasties, ahead of the Guryev and Gutseriev families ($5.1 billion and $3.2 billion). The cumulative fortune of the Rotenbergs reached $5.45 billion. According to the magazine, the Rotenberg family took the lead by selling Stroygazmontazh, the main contractor of the Crimean bridge, to Gazprom. Now the main asset of the family is the contractor Mostotrest .