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Acron

Acron Group in Q1 bought from partner banks a 30% stake in Verkhnekamsk Potash Company, the operator of the Talitsky project ГОК‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ As a result, Acron's stake in the project increased to 80%. Prior to the deal, the company owned 50% + 1 share, while Sberbank held another 29.9%, VTB 10% and Otkritie 10.1%. Acron did not disclose the transacti...

Alrosa

Alrosa, together with Alfa-Bank, launched digital financial assets linked to sales of large investment-grade rare diamonds with guaranteed currency returns. New instrument was named Digital Carats. Average expected returns on a horizon of up to one year will be up to 8%. Underlying asset in the first Digital Carats product was a unique yellow fancy-shaped Cu...

Acron

Akron's IFRS net profit for 2023 amounted to ₽36.87 billion, down 2.6 times from ₽91.03 billion in the previous year. Revenue fell 30.2% to ₽179.46 billion against ₽257.2 billion a year earlier.

Far-Eastern Shipping Company

Rosatom does not plan to make an offer to Fesco minority shareholders, the transferred stake suits the state corporation, said Alexei Likhachev, head of Rosatom, but did not rule out the purchase of securities from those minority shareholders who want to sell them. "We don't see the point of buying the shares that the shareholders who have them have left, an...

NOVATEK

First stage of the Arctic LNG-2 project has been launched, it creates a base for the growth of cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route, said Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak at a meeting in the coordination center of the Russian government within the framework of the International Exhibition-Forum Russia at VDNKh.

X5 Group

Retail chain Pyatyorochka started operating in the Trans-Baikal Territory, which has become its 70th region of presence. Almost simultaneously, 9 Pyatyorochka stores opened in Chita at once. In April it is planned to open 9 more Pyatyorochka, and by the end of this year the number of stores in the region will exceed 60 outlets. Specific feature of Trans-Baik...

Nebius Group

IT company Yandex has taught the YandexGPT neural network to understand the Kazakh language. Language model will appear on the market in 2024. It will be able to write and process texts in Kazakh, memorize the course of a conversation and answer clarifying questions. Neural network will be available to users through a virtual assistant in the Yandex applicat...

Seligdar

Seligdar's RAS net profit for 2023 amounted to ₽14.407 billion, up 6.3 times from ₽2.287 billion in the previous year. Revenue increased 67.5% to ₽1.456 billion against ₽0.869 billion a year earlier.

SPB Exchange

SPB Exchange's RAS loss for 2023 amounted to ₽0.526 billion, down 3.3 times from ₽1.726 billion in the previous year. Commission income fell 33.4% to ₽616.39 million against ₽925.26 million a year earlier. Trading and investment income amounted to ₽0.833 billion, against a loss of ₽1.1 billion a year earlier.

Europlan

Europlan Leasing Company set the IPO offering price at ₽875 per share, which corresponds to the upper end of the price range. Offering consisted of 15 million shares held by SFI. Value of the stake is ₽13.1 billion at the IPO price. Market capitalization of the company at the start of trading will be ₽105 billion and the free-float will be 12.5%. Trading in...