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SPB Exchange

SPB Exchange has opened the St. Petersburg Futures Futures Market and started trading unique settlement futures contracts. First instruments were settlement futures on ETFs, which follow the indices of Brazil, India, China and Saudi Arabia and bitcoin. Futures on SPB Exchange differ from those existing on the Russian stock market in that the variation margin...

Sovcombank

Sovcombank is negotiating the purchase of one of the largest players in the life insurance market, Capital Life, a source told Izvestia newspaper. Deal is at an advanced level, the assets are being studied, one of the interlocutors of the publication said. Insurance company is estimated at approximately one capital, which amounts to 30-40 billion rubles. Dea...

Svetofor Group

Repeated meeting of the shareholders of the Svetofor driving school was again declared invalid due to the lack of a quorum. Earlier, the board of directors recommended paying ₽0.1 per ordinary share and ₽4.22 per preferred share. Board of Directors will consider the issue of convening another repeated meeting with the same agenda on October 10.

VK

Average daily reach of MAX reached 14 million users in September, and about 16.8 million people used the messenger daily in the last days of the month, Mediascope estimates. Monthly reach of the audience from June to September increased almost 16 times and amounted to 42 million people.

Astra

Astra Group was the first in Russia to integrate the QRate Chaos quantum random number generator into the cloud, which uses the fundamental uncertainty of quantum processes to form unpredictable sequences. QRate Chaos is now available as part of the Astra Cloud package via a web interface and a CLI application. The service provides the requested amount of ra...

Zaymer

Shareholders of Zaymer approved dividends for 6 months 2025 in the amount of ₽4.73 per ordinary share. The last day of purchase of securities to receive dividends is October 13, 2025. Dividend yield may amount to 3.15%.

EvroTrans

EuroTrans company was the first to implemented new heavy-duty charging stations for electric vehicles at its filling stations in the Moscow region. The 342 kW stations are capable of charging up to 5 vehicles simultaneously. Charging time is 10-15 minutes.

LUKOIL

First vice president of Lukoil, Azat Shamsuarov, left the company. He worked at Lukoil enterprises in Western Siberia from 1988 to 2000, and then was appointed Vice President of Lukoil Overseas Holding Ltd. In 2013, Shamsuarov became Lukoil's Senior Vice President for oil and gas production, and in 2020, he was appointed the company's first vice president.

Samolet Group of Companies

Volume of real estate sales by the developer Samolet for 9 months of 2025 amounted to 197.8 billion rubles, a decrease of 10%. In physical terms, sales decreased by 10.6% to 906.8 thousand square meters. m. The total number of contracts concluded decreased by 8% and amounted to 27.1 thousand. The share of contracts involving mortgage funds is 55%. Average pr...

Softline

FabricaONE.AI plans to hold an IPO by the end of 2025, sources told RBC. During the placement, the company expects to raise ₽3-5 billion.