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Fix Price Group

Chain of low-fixed-price stores Fix Price opened its 6,000th store. New outlet appeared in the Novosibirsk region - the city of Berdsk. As in all new Fix Price stores it has self-service cash desks in addition to standard cash desks. In just five months of 2023 the chain opened 279 new stores in Russia, not counting franchisees.

Bashneft

Bashneft's shareholders approved a dividend of ₽199.89 per common share and preferred share for 2022. The last day to buy securities to receive dividends is July 5, 2023. The dividend yield on the common stock could be 9.47% and 11.2% on the preferred stock.

Whoosh

Whoosh users took 35.8 million trips between January 1 and June 21, 2023, twice as many as in the same period in 2022. Number of accounts in the service increased by 77%, to 15 million. Number of trips per active user increased by 51%, to 9.7 trips. Group fleet increased by 77%, to 133 thousand electric scooters and electric bicycles. Number of service prese...

MOEX Group (Moscow Exchange)

Russian companies that receive shares of exiting foreign companies at a discount will have to place 20% of them on the stock exchange. Such an obligation will be imposed by the Commission for the Control of Foreign Investment, which approves deals on the withdrawal of foreigners from assets in Russia. In its latest decision the commission has already obliged...

MOEX Group (Moscow Exchange)

Transition to direct dividend payments for Russian shareholders of foreign holdings may be restricted. Ministry of Economic Development put forward the idea of direct payment of dividends to shareholders from Russia through a judicial appeal to the Moscow Arbitration Court. However, Bank of Russia opposed granting such a right to all shareholders. Regulator...

Tatneft

Company Kazmunaigas transferred its share in JV with Tatneft on production of butadiene rubbers Butadiene LLP to its major shareholder - the fund Samruk-Kazyna. Planned capacity of the enterprise will be up to 180 thousand tons of butadiene and butadiene rubbers per year. Launch of production is scheduled for 2026. Finished products are planned to be sent to...

SPB Exchange

At the first stage, SPB Exchange plans to provide other organizations with an established information platform for the issue and circulation on it of money DFA, as well as hybrid digital rights, which include simultaneously money DFA and other digital rights, for example, the ability to deliver goods. Now the exchange is negotiating with potential issuers of...

Pfizer

The Pfizer Board of Directors announced a quarterly dividend of $0.41 per share. The last day to buy securities to receive the dividend is July 26, 2023. The annual dividend yield may reach 3.88%.

Polyus

Board of Directors of Polyus has decided to delist the company's receipts from the LSE. It is no longer advisable for the company to maintain its depositary receipt programs and its Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program.

SPB Exchange

Bank of Russia included SPB Exchange in the register of operators of information systems in which digital financial assets are issued. Volume of the DFA market in Russia is currently about ₽20 billion rubles, of which ₽17 billion are transactions made in 2023.