Brokerage service Ozon and Sovcombank intend to raise 10 billion rubles during the IPO: the main thing on November 27

World

• Ozon has launched installment payment plans for customers in Kazakhstan. In the first stage, installment plans without fees or overpayments are available for 12 months. In the future, the loan term will be 6 to 24 months. The conclusion of an installment agreement is carried out online, you will need a TIN and an SMS confirmation code.

Russia

• Nikolai Vasev, senior vice president of Sberbank, died at the age of 42. The cause of death was a heart attack. Vasev worked at Sberbank for 12 years and recently headed the B2C Customer Experience Development block.

• The Ministry of Digital Development proposed to allocate 27 billion rubles for subsidies to IT startups and allow them to participate in public procurement. The department hopes to support at least a thousand startups that will launch at least 2 thousand new solutions and implemented products.
• Companies will pay approximately 225 billion rubles until the end of November. as a single tax on surplus profits, said Sergei Katyrin, president of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The amount will be sent to the budget taking into account the discount, writes Kommersant.

Finance

• A statement declaring SPB Exchange JSC bankrupt appeared in the archives of the Moscow Arbitration Court. The site itself denied the information that it had filed for bankruptcy.

• Sovcombank intends to raise 10 billion rubles during the initial public offering of shares. This is the first bank IPO in the country since 2015.

Business

• The investment division of the IIDF has waived its demands on two of the three founders of the closed self-publishing service for social media posts “Amplifer”. The fund found no direct evidence that they were aware of one of the founders’ correspondence with IIDF, where they proposed to jointly liquidate the company, and that they deliberately abandoned the founders so as not to take responsibility for the liquidation.

• Yandex has registered a new company called Advertising Services. The general director of the new LLC is the head of Yandex Verticals, Pavel Aleshin, who also owns a majority stake in the project.

• At the Ipatovsky brewery (which produces Zhivoe beer, lemonades and Mirax energy drinks), documents are being seized and searches are being carried out, RBC reports citing sources. According to the publication, the actions of the security forces are aimed at identifying a scheme for the covert production of beer.

• The Moscow Arbitration Court did not hear the appeal of the co-founder of the CloudPayments payment service, Dmitry Spiridonov. The businessman filed an appeal against the decision of the court of appeal in the litigation with Tinkoff. At the beginning of the year, Tinkoff bought Spiridonov’s 5% stake in the service. Since then, the businessman has been trying to prove in court that his value was incorrectly assessed. The businessman’s defense intends to appeal to the Supreme Court.

• Megafon began selling accessories for mobile electronics under its own brand, Stellarway. The aftermarket is new for the telecom operator.

• Russian distributor Jamilco could start developing a French cosmetics brand that has not yet appeared on the Russian market. In October, the company received several declarations of conformity for Panier des Sens products. The brand’s products can now be ordered through some online services. The average price of a product ranges between €10 and €28.

• St. Petersburg residents began filing lawsuits after being poisoned by Samokat’s Greenbox waffles. The district courts registered three lawsuits demanding compensation from Smart Retail LLC and Green Box JSC. In September, about 300 people were hospitalized for food poisoning; some of the victims were diagnosed with salmonella.

Technologies and services

• Ozon Marketplace is exploring the possibility of launching a brokerage service. The company is interested in expanding the ecosystem, especially its bank.
• By 2030, Russia will need 70,000 artificial intelligence specialists. Universities are currently training 3,000 developers, data scientists and machine learning engineers.