The Central Bank plans to modernize the mail service and the directory service, analysts have named the most promising business niches in 2023, rental prices may increase by 15% and other news on January 23, in the RB review. UK.
Finance
- The Bank of Russia, among the first import substitution projects, is going to modernize the postal service and the directory service. The regulator will spend about 40 million rubles on testing new solutions from Russian companies.
- Alternative payment instruments are returning to the financial market. Payment stickers are already being tested by Sberbank, VTB and Post-Bank.
- Russians will be able to take credit holidays for any type of consumer loans from March 2023. Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma committee on the financial market, spoke about this: the law is expected to be approved before the end of February.
Business
- A sufficient number of business niches in the Russian market have been left vacant after the departure of international brands. The analysts named the most promising in 2023: AI, EdTech, MarTech, AgroTech and Web 3.0.
- In 2022, the revenue of theaters from the distribution of Russian films increased from 10.4 billion rubles to 12 billion rubles. The share of rolled products was 51% instead of 25% in 2021.
- Prices for rental housing in Russia for the spring can rise by up to 15%. Over the last month, they have already risen to 6% in some cities. This is due to a reduction in supply after a notable increase in the fall of 2022.
- At the end of 2022, Russian software developers applied to the Ministry of Digital Transformation to extend the preferential income tax rate for accredited IT companies. The companies proposed considering the possibility of making the zero rate perpetual or raising it to 3%.
- Restaurants of the former McDonald’s began to open in Kazakhstan, but without a name. The new name will be presented in the near future, added Asset Mashanov, General Director of Food Solutions KZ.
Services
- Russian book services and publishers have begun to actively implement artificial intelligence technologies for dubbing audiobooks. In the future, such algorithms can help speed up and reduce the cost of production in the segment at times.
Author:
RB team
Source: RB
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