The largest crypto exchange Binance refused to buy rival FTX, and Gref revealed the results of Sberbank for the first time since the beginning of the “special operation” – these and other important news for the morning of Thursday, November 10, in our daily review.

Binance has abandoned its plans to buy one of the largest crypto exchanges FTX after it conducted a comprehensive due diligence (due diligence) of the company. This was announced by Binance on its Twitter account (NYSE:TWTR). The largest crypto exchange player was also embarrassed by recent news about FTX’s misuse of investor funds and alleged US investigations into the exchange’s actions.

Cryptocurrencies continued their fall – they collapsed again by the evening of Wednesday, November 9. The collapse occurred after the largest global crypto exchange by trading volume, Binance, abandoned plans to acquire FTX, CNBC reports.

At the end of 10 months of 2022, Sberbank’s net profit exceeded 50 billion rubles, the bank’s chairman German Gref told reporters on the sidelines of the Finopolis forum. In October, the bank earned 122.8 billion rubles and restored profitability, he said. This means that compared to 10 months of last year, Sber’s profit fell by 95% (from 1.05 trillion rubles), Forbes writes.

Deliveries of liquefied natural gas to 27 countries of the European Union for 10 months of 2022 reached 105 billion cubic meters, RBC reports with reference to the calculations of the research company Kpler. For the same period last year they were at 64 billion cubic meters, and for the whole of 2021 – 78.1 billion cubic meters. The EU’s 10-month result is higher than that of China, the largest LNG consumer: it bought only 69.9 bcm (87.5 bcm for the same period in 2021).

“Tsifra Broker” (formerly called “Freedom Finance”) will request information from clients about the origin of funds that are received in their accounts or withdrawn from them, according to the new wording of the service agreement. The new wording of the documents comes into force on November 14, Frank Media writes.