Russia’s Yandex and Tinkoff scrap $5.5bn deal
Internal email suggests agreement was lost on nature of the merger.
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Yandex plans $5.5bn acquisition of Russian neobank Tinkoff
Russian tech giant plans to snap up the country’s largest online bank.
For the sake of fraud fighting: how to secure online transactions on the Russian market
All the new forms of digital interaction are getting particularly vulnerable to fraudulent activities.
Russia’s Sberbank inks contract with driverless car tech firm
The Russian bank will challenge Yandex which currently has the monopoly.
Yandex launches two e-commerce platforms in Russia
Beru and Bringly come bouncing in.
Yandex unveils public cloud platform
Yandex.Cloud hovers into view over Russia.
Learning the B2Cs of e-commerce
The B2C e-commerce sales worldwide are estimated to reach $2.356 trillion in 2018.
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.
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!
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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.
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