Lawsuit by Tinkoff employees and Russia without cashback. Highlights of the day 09/05/2022
🔹 An initiative group of Tinkoff Bank employees intends to bring a class action lawsuit against a credit institution. it turns out that “thousands of employees” of the bank have not received about 40% of their salaries since March.
🔹 The dollar index, showing its position against a basket of six US currencies, reached its highest level since 2002 on Monday. The euro fell to its lowest level since 2002 after news of the Nord Stream shutdown, and the British currency, where a new prime minister was announced, to its lowest level since 1985.
🔹 A researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences became a victim of scammers who revealed the features of the “Security Service of the Central Bank”. The scientist gave 200 thousand 200 thousand dollars. euros and 30 million rubles.
🔹 Banki.ru has a new section with stock market analytics.
🔹 The Accounts Chamber is allowed not to extend the issuance of preferential mortgages after 2022. According to the auditors, preferential mortgages often lead to a large gap in the prices of new buildings and secondary housing. In the meantime, at least 40%, according to officials, cannot take out a mortgage – even a preferential one.
🔹 The head of VTB Andrey Kostin believes that it is “vital” for a public bank to move away from dollars, euros and focus on SWIFT. Also, VTB proposed options for solving the problems of blocked foreign securities, the holders of which use falling Russian investors. The scheme involves the launch of trading with the maximum possible assets on the external market with access to them by non-residents. Non-residents should be able to sell Russian securities.
🔹 Assistant to the President of Russia Levitin chose a choice from the word “cashback” and offered a replacement option.
🔹 The Moscow Exchange has suspended trading in the foreign exchange market and the precious metals market. The decision was made due to an error in the trading system.
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