International Cybersecurity Congress 2018: DDoS is the business of petty criminals
Latest news from Sberbank’s event in Moscow.
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Sberbank now supports Google Pay
First bank in Russia to do so.
Learning the B2Cs of e-commerce
The B2C e-commerce sales worldwide are estimated to reach $2.356 trillion in 2018.
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.
Case study: Sberbank – tech them on
Sberbank now benchmarks its performance against technology companies not other banks.
Banking Technology February 2018 issue out now
Vision dreams of passion. And all the while I think of fintech.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 11 January 2018
Stars Saifu, Thales, Babb, Iznes, SETL and Sberbank’s new lab.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 29 November 2017
Bitcoin high, Russian firsts, trade finance digitisation, US moves, and an interoperability alliance. Another day of action in the busy blockchain and Bitcoin world. Features Sberbank, IBM, Infosys Finacle, BitFlyer and the Blockchain Interoperability Alliance. Doubt you missed it, but Bitcoin has reached an all time high of $10,000. We were inundated with similar comments […]
Sberbank joins Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to broaden cooperation
Sberbank has become the first Russian bank to join the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). The non-commercial alliance was established in February 2017 to transform Ethereum into an enterprise-grade technology.
Sberbank and Swift sign memorandum of co-operation for product push
Sberbank and Swift have signed a memorandum of co-operation regarding the development and piloting of products created and promoted by Swift. With fintech hugs sweeping Sibos and the planet, the parties agreed to co-ordinate steps to assess the potential application of blockchain in interbank settlement platforms. In particular, Sberbank joined the international group of financial […]
Sibos 2017: collaboration vital to avoid dinosaur status
The question of whether – and in what form – banks will survive in the future depends largely on how the forces of changing customer behaviour, technology and regulation will play out on different types of banks.
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.
Top fintech stories this week – 11 August 2017
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Sberbank implements risk management system with Numerix
Russia’s largest banking group Sberbank has completed the implementation of its bank-wide technology programme focusing on automating its financial market risk management system. As part of the multi-year project, Sberbank built a technology platform which included IT systems and modules allowing the management of various types of risks, namely credit and market risks. The platform […]
Top ten core banking software projects in 2016
Look back at some of the major core banking software projects in 2016, with Banking Technology’s top ten.
Five large banks in Russia suffer major DDoS attack
Five Russian banks, including Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, have been hit by a major cyberattack, according to the country’s central bank and regulator, Bank of Russia.
Sberbank picks software and service providers for major tech overhaul
Russia’s largest banking group, Sberbank, has concluded its tender to find software and processing systems developers to revamp its retail and corporate banking tech.
Top fintech stories this week – 7 October 2016
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Apple Pay launches in Russia
Apple Pay has launched in Russia with partners Sberbank and MasterCard. Russia is the tenth country where Apple Pay has been made available, following the US, UK, Canada, France, China and others. Alexander Torbakhov, deputy chairman of the executive board of Sberbank, says: “Apple Pay is driving the popularisation of contactless payments in Russia and […]
Sberbank goes blockchain with Hyperledger Project
Sberbank and the Linux Foundation have entered into an agreement on the bank’s participation in the Hyperledger Project. The deal was signed at the Sibos conference in Geneva and Lev Khasis, first deputy chairman of the executive board of Sberbank, said the new development with Hyperledger, and its open source platform based on blockchain, offered “access to […]
Sibos 2016: collaborate to drive correspondent banking
More collaboration is required among members of the correspondent banking community, despite the progress that has been made through efforts such as the Global Payments Innovation (GPI) initiative.
Sberbank sets up MVNO for mobile banking
Russia’s largest banking group, Sberbank, is to launch mobile banking via a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). According to Russian business daily Vedomosti, the bank has created a new subsidiary, SB-Telecom, which will act as the MVNO. The development is at the early stage as the new firm hasn’t received any licences yet from Roskomnadzor […]
Top fintech stories this week – 17 June 2016
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place! UniCredit and Open Bank Project launch fintech start-up competition Top prize is €50,000 and a contract to work with UniCredit. BBA to merge with three trade associations to create major industry body British Bankers Association (BBA), Council of […]
Sberbank to overhaul core banking platform
Russia’s largest banking group, Sberbank, is undergoing a major technology overhaul. The bank’s senior MD of technology, Mikhail Khasin, did a presentation on the bank’s new business development platform at a recent conference, TAdviser SummIT. The initiative is a “revolutionary transformation” of all systems that currently form Sberbank’s core banking platform. He said the new […]
Sberbank builds new digital product, Sberbank Messenger
Russia’s banking giant, Sberbank, has unveiled a new digital product, Sberbank Messenger – a communication platform for users to interact with friends and colleagues as well as with services providers, shops and businesses. It can be a person-to-person communication or by using artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The solution will be in beta testing later this […]
Russia’s largest bank joins Wolters Kluwer customer list
Russia-based Sberbank has implemented Wolters Kluwer’s risk management solution, OneSumX, to streamline its treasury operations. OneSumX will enable the bank to perform dynamic simulation, market risk analysis and liquidity risk analysis, says the vendor. There was an extensive system selection, says Wolters Kluwer, with around 30 providers on the long list. Andrey Prudnikov, treasury director […]
Sberbank Kazakhstan opens way to cardless cash withdrawals
Sberbank Kazakhstan and OpenWay have launched a cardless cash withdrawal service on the Way4 platform. The bank’s customers can now get cash at more than 900 ATMs without a card. Instead, a “secret” code is entered at the ATM. The new “cash by code” functionality was developed by OpenWay together with an unnamed third party […]
New epoch for finance as trade unbundles …
Rising political tensions and the increasing use of sanctions are making companies think twice about relying on long global supply chains, said John Calverley, head of economic research at Standard Chartered. Firms may decide that rather than hedging their bets with production, they will keep it closer to home, he said during a roundtable session yesterday.
