“The largest DDoS attack in Ukraine’s history,” according to the digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fyodorov, took place this past Tuesday, Feb. 15 — just one month after a previous attack. The attack targeted the websites of the defense ministry and armed forces as well as two of Ukraine’s two largest banks – PrivatBank and Oschadbank. Starting at 3pm that day, …
Chinese payment system UnionPay International, the world’s biggest payment system both in terms of cards issued and volume of operations, is entering the Ukrainian market, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) announced on Nov. 13. UnionPay International will provide services in Ukraine for issuing cash from ATMs and supporting payments for goods and services with UnionPay …
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PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest and innovation-friendly bank, has just rolled out an extended version of its Internet bank Privat24, making its services available to users of any bank around the world. Positioned as a “bank of a new generation,” Privat24 is still in beta mode. However, even now anyone can test the service using its trial website …
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Last week PrivatBank, Ukraine’s major innovation-friendly bank, announced the launch of Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payment and digital wallet service, for its cardholders in Ukraine. The service is available to holders of both credit and debit cards, Visa or Mastercard. Presenting the service as “one of the most expected payment innovations in Ukraine,” Dmytro Krepak, Acting Group Country …
On April 20, the sixth edition of the Ukrainian E-commerce Awards, the annual ceremony to honor top Ukrainian e-commerce players, was held in Kyiv (Kiev). Over 300 Internet projects participated in the contest. The winning companies were chosen by online vote by some 15,000 customers among a list of companies pre-selected by the jury.
Recenty AIN.UA, the leading Ukrainian tech blog, offered its annual ranking of the country’s most successful startups. Based on a survey among local business angels, venture investors, entrepreneurs, lawyers and the organizers of acceleration programs, the ranking features projects which were created or pivoted over the past three years. Although they were created by Ukrainian …
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As part of its global strategy to extend its reach and develop mobile ticketing services, Mastercard has just made available a new contactless payment service in the subway of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. The new technology, dubbed “MetroPass,” transforms bank cards into subway travel cards with pre-paid billing plans for a limited or unlimited number of …
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The fifth edition of the Ukrainian E-commerce Awards, the annual ceremony to honor top Ukrainian e-commerce players, was held last month in Kyiv (Kiev). Over 200 Internet projects participated in the contest. The winning companies were chosen by online vote by some 10,000 customers among a list of companies pre-selected by the jury.
Viber, a messaging app with nearly 800 million active users in 193 countries around the world, has entered the Ukrainian business market, touting its latest and “most important (feature) for the last two years” – public accounts. Viber Media Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese company Rakuten Inc., announced the roll out of its new business …
Five Ukrainians have won places on the New Europe 100 list of 100 of the “brightest and best people” in Central and Eastern Europe. The third annual list, which was organized by U.K. business daily Financial Times, the Visegrad Fund, Google and Polish journal Res Publica, includes 100 business and social leaders, creative inventors and go-getting entrepreneurs …
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The clients of PrivatBank, an innovation-friendly Ukrainian bank, can now transfer money and pay their mobile phone bills directly via iMessage, if they have an iOS 10-supported iPhone. To perform a transaction, users just need to press the Privat24’s icon shown in iMessage’s menu, indicate the amount of money to be transferred, and choose the necessary …
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Last week Corezoid, a cloud process engine that allows companies to create their own digital core, won the second prize and $5,000 at the Money20/20 hackathon in Las Vegas, for their application Share.CreditCard. Corezoid is a California-based company which is owned by PrivatBank, a major Ukrainian bank, according to the bank’s press service.
