E-trading

Reuters: Binance built ties to a Russian FSB-linked agency

April 22, 2022

Just one day after Binance announced it was deactivating the accounts of its major clients in Russia in order to comply with EU sanctions, Reuters reveals how, starting from April 2021, the world’s leading crypto exchange secretly shared client data with the Russian authorities. At the time, Russia’s financial intelligence unit Rosfinmonitoring (Rosfin) was “seeking to trace …

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Yandex teams up with VTB to launch investment platform

September 19, 2019

Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian Internet giant, and VTB, a major Russian state-owned bank, intend to launch a B2C online investment platform. Meant for a large, non-professional audience, the platform will allow users to trade shares and other financial instruments, as reported by The Bell earlier this week. Alfa Bank, Sberbank and Tinkoff offer similar services, …

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Sberbank and Interros Group conclude blockchain-based forex repo deal

December 6, 2018

Sberbank, Russia’s largest banking institution, and Interros Group, a Moscow-based private equity firm, have carried out an over-the-counter OTC foreign exchange repurchase agreement (repo) transaction employing smart contracts on a blockchain, Reuters Russia reported last week. Head of global markets department and vice president at Sberbank, Andrei Shemetov, informed Reuters that the transaction is real, legally binding, and has been “concluded in electronic format using a …

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LAToken raises $10 million in ICO to create “the first asset-backed token exchange”

September 9, 2017

As the ICO fever continues to rise, LAToken, a Blockchain platform which aims to make tradable potentially any type of assets, raised the equivalent of $9.6 million in late August. In just three days, investors bought 30 million tokens, each one amounting to 0,001 ETH. During the three next stages of the ICO, which will take place in …

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AI-enhanced mobile trading app raises $25 million from Eastern Europe

August 3, 2017

Two major investors from Russia and Belarus have just injected $25 million in Capital.com, a trading app that is similar to Robinhood in the US or Trading212 in Europe — but with a specific AI-powered function that provides users with tailored content based on behavioral analysis. Dubbed ’Smart Feed’ and scheduled for launch next month, this AI function analyzes user …

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Qiwi bets on “Russian Robinhood”

March 18, 2017

In late 2016 QIWI Venture invested an undisclosed amount in Simple Invest, a Moscow-based startup which is developing a mobile trading app. The deal has just been revealed by Russian venture blog Firrma.ru based on exchanges with QIWI Venture. The yet-to-be-released app, dubbed ‘Russian Robinhood,’ will allow Russian users to invest in real time in the Moscow and New York stock exchanges. …

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