“Darkstore at home” has closed the second round of investments, a compensation fund for couriers and taxi drivers will be created: July 16

Russia

• The deputies proposed to create a compensation fund from which couriers and taxi drivers whose rights were violated by aggregators would be paid. The fund will be replenished with contributions from digital employment platforms, which will be entered into a special register of the Federal Tax Service. The minimum amount of such a contribution is proposed to be set at 3 million rubles, writes Vedomosti.
• The State Committee on Legislative Activities has supported a bill prepared by Rospotrebnadzor, which provides for at least doubling fines for failure to notify the start of a business activity, writes the Vedomosti newspaper.

Finance

• The Mir payment system has already started operating in some restaurants and shopping malls in Myanmar. In the future, they plan to expand the area of ​​card operation.
• Analysts have begun to factor in the likelihood of the interest rate rising to 20% by the end of 2024. For now, this scenario seems unlikely, but possible in the event of accelerated inflation, increased lending and a weakening of the ruble, RBC writes.

Business

• Investment firm Ultimate Capital has become the owner of the native advertising marketplace on Telegram – Telega.in, the fund announced. Ultimate Capital is known in the market as an investor in Whoosh and Skillbox.

• Russian developer of software for cyber clubs Langame has entered the Indonesian market. The company has signed an agreement with local company PT Digital Nusa Ananta (DNA) and intends to be present in the country as a “strategic player”.
• Darkstore at Home, a network of express warehouses for online retailers with the ability to deliver orders to end consumers, has closed the second round of investments worth 50 million rubles.