In Europe, the owners of bank cards of the Visa payment system on June 1 experienced difficulties in the calculations. Visa is trying to fix the problems caused, allegedly, by a failure in the system.

Germany's largest bank Deutsche Bank plans to reduce the number of employees globally to more than 7 thousand people, which will be the first major step of the new CEO in an effort to reduce costs and restore profitability.

In the first quarter of 2018, economic growth in the euro area slowed, and industrial production in March grew less than expected. This is reported by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat).

The German concern Siemens will be able to take part in the tender for the supply of gas turbine equipment for TPP Udarnaya in Taman, which will be built by Rostekha company Tekhnopromexport. This was stated by the head of "Rostekh" Sergei Chemezov.

More and more countries avoid investments in US debt obligations. Is the hegemony of the US dollar coming to an end? Over the past few years, the dollar has been supported by demand from foreign central banks, but now everything has changed. Now even Japan reduces the amount of treasuries in its reserves - according to the table, the state debt of the countries of the world in 2017 the country is on the first place.

The net profit of one of the largest banking groups in the US Wells Fargo & Co in the first quarter of 2018 grew by 5.5% to $ 5.94 billion compared to the same period last year.

Net income of the largest US bank by assets JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the I quarter of 2018 increased to $ 8.71 billion, or up to $ 2.37 per share. For the same period last year, the profit was $ 6.45 billion, or $ 1.65 per share, according to the bank's statements.

In February 2018, bank lending to companies in the euro area weakened, while its level remains close to the multi-year high, according to the European Central Bank (ECB). Lending to non-financial corporations increased 3.1% year-on-year after growth of 3.4% in January, when lending grew at the strongest pace since May 2009.

In Vietnam, the 25th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, which was held November 10-11, 2017 in Danang, completed its work. According to the results of the APEC-2017 summit, agreements were reached between the participating countries in the field of digital economy, investments and business ties. In addition, Putin and Trump held talks and made a joint statement on Syria.

The annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club was held in Sochi from October 16 to 19. The general theme of "Valdai-2017" this year was called "Creative destruction: will a new world order arise from conflicts?"

Over four days, more than 130 experts from 33 countries discussed global, political and social conflicts of the day, the opportunities for society to adapt to new factors and conditions. Through the analysis of contemporary conflicts, experts and political scientists predicted the outlines of the world of the future. The final session was also attended by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, former President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, scientific director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute Asley Toye and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma.