Cybercrime crew Cobalt goes phishing in Eastern Europe
Cyber researchers at Netscout put out a warning.
Russia
Case study: Robocash – fintech crossing the borders
How to adapt a standard financial product to local specifics, by the examples of Kazakhstan and Spain.
World Economic Forum cyber centre powers up with partners
Sberbank is one of the founding partners.
Sberbank spares $400k for six start-ups
First wave of Sber#Up in-house accelerator ends.
Consumer investment platform Yammi launches in Russia
Created by Yandex.Money and FinEx.
PIR Bank in Russia victim of domestic $1m hack
Hacker group MoneyTaker is up to no good, again.
Kassir acquisition just the ticket for Tinkoff
Kassir will sell tickets via bank and mobile app.
Tinkoff and Sberbank share mobile numbers for P2P payments
Available to all customers across Russia by the end of July.
International Cybersecurity Congress 2018: Microsoft plays hard for info protection
Breaking boundaries in doc management.
International Cybersecurity Congress 2018: communication breakdown
Openness and transparency in the eyes of media and customers.
International Cybersecurity Congress 2018: calling time on secretive banks
Within and outside Russia’s borders.
International Cybersecurity Congress 2018: in the spirit of collaboration
When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s an “us versus them”.
International Cybersecurity Congress 2018: DDoS is the business of petty criminals
Latest news from Sberbank’s event in Moscow.
Sberbank now supports Google Pay
First bank in Russia to do so.
SimplyFi teams with Tochka Bank for SME lending in Russia
Credit decisions are made within two hours.
Russian social media site VK preps payments push
Part of a larger strategy to break into financial services.
Learning the B2Cs of e-commerce
The B2C e-commerce sales worldwide are estimated to reach $2.356 trillion in 2018.
Brazil dances to victory in Danske’s World Cup model
Bank uses its football World Cup model to predict the outcome.
Tinkoff Bank to launch new development hub in Sochi
Russian bank working with the Talent and Success Foundation.
Samsung opens AI centres in UK, Canada and Russia
To explore the potential of user-centric AI and IoT action.
The name’s bond, MTS placed bonds… on blockchain
Digital service provider in “first transaction of its kind” in Russia.
E-commerce spotlight: Yandex.Money – advantage Russia
Yandex.Money CEO, Ivan Glazachev, talks about what is driving his business and wider e-commerce trends in Russia.
Sberbank takes to the cloud
Russian bank teams with system integrator I-Teco for SberCloud platform.
Robot Anna the answer at Sberbank’s client contact centre
Anna’s a gleaner for banking queries in Russia.
Top fintech stories this week – 23 February 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Russia’s beta biometrics brings better banking security
Tinkoff Bank, VTB Bank and Pochta Bank have presented a beta version of their unified biometrics system.
Hackers steal $6m from Russian bank via Swift
Russian central bank disclosed the information… very discreetly.
Tinkoff Bank opens fintech development hub in Moscow
Will focus on new business solutions based on blockchain and biometrics.
Case study: Sberbank – tech them on
Sberbank now benchmarks its performance against technology companies not other banks.
AHML and Tinkoff Bank to unleash digital mortgages in Russia
Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending buddies up with bank for joint venture.
Fintech Lab launches insurtech accelerator in Moscow
Nine start-ups primed for action.
Alfa-Bank and HashCash unleash blockchain-powered payments
Russia’s largest commercial bank is making waves.
Tinkoff Bank first in the world to bring stories feature to mobile app
The bank has become “the first bank anywhere in the world to introduce a stories feature to its mobile app”.
Compass Plus builds new mobile banking app for Lipetskcombank
Lipetskcombank (LKB), one of Russia’s largest regional banks, has launched its new LKB Online mobile app, underpinned by the Tranzware Mobile Banking system from paytech specialist Compass Plus.
NSD makes it possible to maintain financial privacy in blockchain use
It took just half a year for the team of National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, to find a solution for the challenge of maintaining confidentiality when verifying distributed ledger transactions.
Telegram becomes the BotFather of Sberbank’s payments
News comes from Russia with love as Sberbank, the country’s largest bank, and Telegram, a messenger API, have partnered up to develop a payment solution for firms using Telegram bots.
Interview: Aleksey Chubar, VTB – leading a fintech revolution in Russia
If you’ve got preconceptions about what fintech looks like and where it’s happening, then Aleksey Chubar, head of digital transformation at VTB, has news for you. Russia is becoming a hotbed of fintech innovation – not just domestically, but internationally too. More than that, the rapid pace of technological change in the country means you’ll soon wonder how you got left behind.
Russia’s CSD develops blockchain platform with Waves
National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository (CSD), and Waves, a decentralised platform for launching crowdfunding campaigns and issuing digital assets, have embarked on a blockchain project.
Yandex and Sberbank plot joint venture for e-commerce
Russia’s tech heavyweight Yandex and the country’s largest bank, Sberbank, are planning a joint venture to “boost e-commerce development”. The new venture will be based on the Yandex.Market platform.
VTB brings Alipay to Russia big time
Chinese online and mobile payment platform Alipay is looking to grow its presence significantly in Russia with the help of VTB Group.
