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Plans for Russia’s biggest corporate deal of 2020 fell apart on Friday as talks over a $5.48 billion cash-and-shares sale of online bank Tinkoff to internet giant Yandex were terminated after failure to agree transaction terms. The potential deal – which would have provided competition for Sberbank in the technology and banking sectors – stalled less than four weeks after it was announced by Tinkoff parent TCS Group Holding. TCS founder Oleg Tinkov claimed responsibility for halting the… Source link

Tinkoff, Russia’s leading online bank, has pulled out of a $5.5bn sale to search giant Yandex that would have represented a major shake-up to the country’s tech and finance industries. Yandex said on Friday that “it has not been able to agree definitive transaction terms with the core shareholders of Tinkoff” and that the parties had decided to conclude the negotiations. The collapse ends a year and a half of talks over what would have been a substantial tie-up at a… Source link

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Russian internet group Yandex is pictured at the company’s headquarter in Moscow, Russia October 4, 2018. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo MOSCOW (Reuters) – Discussions over a $5.48 billion cash-and-shares sale of online bank Tinkoff to Russian internet giant Yandex have been terminated after they failed to agree transaction terms. Tinkoff’s parent company TCS Group Holding said on Friday that it had agreed with Yandex not to proceed with the transaction but… Source link

TCS Group announced on Friday that the sale of Tinkoff Bank to the tech giant Yandex has collapsed and the deal is now “terminated.” “Following further discussions, including with Tinkoff’s controlling shareholder, the parties have agreed not to proceed with the potential transaction,” the company said, offering no further explanation. In a separate press release, Yandex confirmed that it is no longer buying Tinkoff Bank, saying that it failed to finalize terms with the bank’s main… Source link

Photographer: Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./Bloomberg Photographer: Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./Bloomberg Russian internet firm Yandex NV terminated talks to buy the country’s largest online lender TCS Group Holding PLC,… Source link

The sale of Tinkoff Bank to Yandex is far from certain, Russian online publication The Bell reported Wednesday, just three weeks after the two companies announced an “agreement in principle” for a $5.5 billion merger. Oleg Tinkov, the owner of the online bank, is also considering other buyers — in particular mobile operator MTS, or its affiliate MTS bank.  The Bell, citing financial Telegram channels and unnamed sources, reported that Tinkov has been in discussions with… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex set to buy Tinkoff Bank in defensive move to boost fintech  AIM Group Source link

Shares of Russian internet major Yandex jumped by 14% on the Moscow Exchange on September 23, on top of 11% gain on September 22, to record-high RUB5,300 ($69) per share on the announcement of the acquisition of Russia’s only pure online bank Tinkoff from the banking TCS Group.  As reported by bne… Source link

On this episode of Yahoo Finance Presents, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President & CEO John Williams sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung, to discuss a sweeping variety of topics, including interest rates, yield curve control, corporate bond purchases, liquidity, the Fed’s $7 trillion balance sheet, and many others. Source link

Stock futures opened slightly higher Monday evening as investors looked ahead of a slew of earnings results from big banks Tuesday and later this week. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq erased earlier gains to close lower during Monday’s regular session. But each had advanced strongly earlier in the day, driven in part by hopes of a Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech. The Dow closed higher, with a 4% rise in shares of Pfizer buoying the index. More roll-backs of reopening plans put a damper… Source link