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Qiwi co-founder Sergey Solonin has confirmed that he is taking the option to reissue his $17 million investment in Telegram’s TON as a loan, repayable at 110% next April, over an immediate 72% refund.
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Qiwi is a Russian payment service provider founded in Moscow in 2007 and headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Qiwi is publicly traded and is served worldwide, but major territories of activity for Qiwi are Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, the U.S. and the UAE. The Qiwi wallet is strongly interested in blockchain technology and its development. The latest Qiwi news, like plans of opening a blockchain academy and the creation of a blockchain development-focused subsidiary, indicate that the company aims to become one of the main blockchain companies in countries of the post-Commonwealth of Independent States. Qiwi will work on cryptocurrency education, financing, development and consulting. A diversified approach to the blockchain industry may help Qiwi to benefit from technology and become an important fintech enterprise in the future.
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Subsidiary of Russian payment service provider Qiwi has launched the first crypto investment bank in the country to manage ICOs, according to local reports.
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FT reports that Putin’s economic adviser thinks CryptoRuble will help Russia get around sanctions, while other Russian government officials disagree.
62242 A private ‘Blockchain Academy’ is coming to Russia, created by money transfer wallet QIWI and Scream School.
15011Businesses, state authorities and members of Blockchain community gathered last week to draw preliminary conclusions about regulation of cryptocurrencies in Russia.
2577Earlier this week National Bank of Ukraine has introduced a ban on the use of payment services provided by Webmoney, Yandex.Money, Qiwi Wallet, and Wallet One.
734What are the ways to break down entry barriers to digital money? Three companies - CoinsBank, QIWI and Genesis Mining - suggest their answers to this question.
1819Russian authorities issued an official warning to block Qiwi and Skrill, gave them three days to comply with the order.
823In its war against online gambling, Russian authorities are now targeting major online payment services.Qiwi and Skrill.
960Recognizing the potential for development of blockchain technology in the country, Russian payment operator Qiwi is seeking to establish a consortium of banks similar to the New York-based R3.
879Russian Ministry of Finance proposed to introduce imprisonment for issuing and using “money substitutes”. One of the such currencies is BitRuble.
774Payment service provider and future BitRuble issuer Qiwi are launching a series of blockchain focused master classes called “Promising Distribution”
965Russian payment service provider Qiwi has registered all domain names such as bitrouble.com, bitrouble.org, bitru.rf, and bitrub.li, according to the Russian newspaper “Kommersant.”
698Russia has decided to begin work on a new national digital currency, the Bit-ruble, that will be managed and overseen by the state central banking system, according to late evening reports out of El Mundo in Spain.
1700While a new digital currency proposed by payments services company Qiwi, dubbed the BitRuble, has led to harsh criticism from a top Russian official, the head of the country’s largest bank Sberbank has admitted to owning bitcoin.
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