Alfa Bank announced on Wednesday it has formed a new partnership with Silicon Valley accelerator, Plug and Play. Alfa reported that through the collaboration, it is expanding its contacts to fintech startups on a global scale. Plug and Play describes itself as a global innovation… Read More
Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank which almost one third of aggregate Russian banking sector assets, is the key lender to the national economy and the biggest deposit taker in Russia. The bank has now spearheaded a Russian banking industry first: a pilot blockchain payment transaction. The transaction used… Read More
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