Expobank issued digital financial assets worth a diamond, Russian employers increased salaries of IT specialists by 10-15%, VTB intends to present a voice assistant with a digital avatar and other novelties on November 3 .
World
- The American corporation Apple reported on the fourth quarter and the full fiscal year 2023, which ended on September 30. The company’s revenue in the fourth quarter decreased by 1%, amounting to $89.5 billion, so the figure decreased for the fourth consecutive quarter.
Russia
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In Moscow, blogger and businessman Ayaz Shabutdinov was detained on suspicion of fraud in the sale of educational courses. It later became known that a criminal case had been opened against Shabutdinov.
Finance
- Expobank issued digital financial assets in exchange for diamonds. This is the first DFA issuance in Russia related to a gemstone.
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SPB Exchange will withdraw from the capital of the Kazakh ITS due to its inclusion in the US SDN list. As reported on the ITS trading platform, in case restrictive measures for the shareholder are introduced, exactly this scenario is foreseen. SPB Exchange owns 10% of ITS.
Business
- FC Otkritie sued Goldman Sachs for 615 million rubles before the Moscow Arbitration Court. The Russian court also prohibited Goldman Sachs from starting similar proceedings with FC Otkritie before the London Court of International Arbitration, Vedomosti reports.
- Since January 2023, Russian employers have increased salaries for IT specialists by 10% to 15%. Now it is 170 thousand rubles in Russia, and in Moscow – 210 thousand rubles. In some cases, the amounts reach 800 thousand rubles.
- The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs proposes increasing the annual income threshold for self-employed workers, writes Kommersant.
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The company proposed the concept of an industry standard for data protection. DBA has developed criteria and approaches for storing and collecting information, as well as methods for improving security systems. An independent audit of compliance with the standard is proposed once a year.
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The Japanese tobacco company JTI decided to remain in Russia after February 2022 so as not to deprive consumers of the “product they are accustomed to.” JTI will continue to operate in the country, but will not introduce new generation tobacco heating devices to the Russian market.
Services and technologies
- VTB intends to introduce a voice assistant with a digital avatar at the end of 2023. The assistant will be called Tamara, the name refers to the technologies of tomorrow: tomorrow – “tomorrow”. The development cost is estimated at 20 million rubles.
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A passport authentication service has appeared on Gosuslugi. The feature will be useful before closing a deal or signing an agreement, says the Ministry of Digital Development. The service will determine if the document is fake or has expired.
Transport
- Russian Railways, against the background of requests from automakers to the government to help with the problem of delivering cars to showrooms, offered to use railway services for this, RBC reports.
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