The main applicants for an action on Banki.ru were found, VK will install its own CDN service – the main thing on March 28

Finance

• SPB Exchange has compiled a list of foreign securities held in “unfriendly” depositories, including securities of “friendly” issuers in Hong Kong and mainland China, RBC Investments reported.

Business

• Since March 2022, in Russian cities with one million inhabitants, on average, the communication stores of operators have decreased by 5.5%. The drop is especially noticeable in Omsk.
• The Moscow Stock Exchange, Yandex and Vladimir Potanin claim the Banki.ru portal, in which Russia Partners sells a stake, Kommersant learned.
• MTS in April 2023 plans to close a deal to buy more than 50% in the developer of solutions in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) for transport “Project Environment”. The amount of the transaction is estimated at 1.5-2 billion rubles.
• US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly will transfer the Russian business to a partner, Swiss Swixx Biopharma, Kommersant has found.
• The new majority owners of the Russian assets of the German company Henkel, which produces cosmetics and household chemicals under the brands Schwafzkopf, Fa, Persil and Pemolux, may become shareholders of Pharmstandard (billionaires Viktor Kharitonin and Yegor Kulkov), learned Vedomosti.

Technologies

• VK plans to install its own CDN service on the networks to speed up users’ downloading of video content. The service will allow content to be downloaded not from a central server, which can be located thousands of kilometers away, but from the nearest CDN point of presence.
• The Russian authorities are preparing retaliatory measures in case the West blocks the loading of virtual SIM cards – eSIM on smartphones, Izvestia writes.