Tinkoff manifested much more than a profitable tech-enabled bank in Russia

If was an epitome of FS…

Fintech in Early Renaissance Florence:

European trade supremacy achieved through a systemic…

Yoomoney (fna Yandex Money) owned by Sberbank are censured under OFAC SDN — and can impact its ability to facilitate…

Payment regulator pushes all banks in Russia to connect to SBPay — a (so far poor) Faster Payment QR Payment app

Sberbank to much fanfare launched money transfers to Alipay on Feb 1st 2022. Closed as of today March 22nd

Alipay fund-in transactions are routed via Alipay+ (fna Alipay Connect) where base currencies is…

Russia’s Sberbank stablecoin project is not primed to evade sanctions. It’s a long established project to battle cash…

There is one major impact on consumers from Sberbank and Alfa Bank being sanctioned via OFAC SDN— their mobile apps…

Kaspi: an (un)fintech fairy-tale

How a team stick to their guns to explore a once-in-lifetime…

Payments wars begin in RU: reversal of cashbacks, disruption of payment rails pulls the market back and sideways

The story of contactless / faster payments in Russia — and its future after 2022

And the need to…