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.
U.S. multinational financial services corporation MasterCard has launched its digital wallet service, MasterPass, in Ukraine. Ukraine on July 15 became the 32nd country in which the electronic service has been introduced. MasterPass is an online service that helps users pay electronically with any bankcard or electronic money from one place.
Ukrainian startup Taplend allows you to “get money transfers from your friends on your PayPal account with no interest or fee at all” or to “borrow it from financial institutions on your bank account or card through the iOS application in just few taps.” According to the Ukrainian high tech blog AIN.UA, the startup will …
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In late September, the Ukrainian capital will play host to Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Kiev 2016, a leading industry conference. The event will bring together both local and international Bitcoin enthusiasts and blockchain service developers. A special focus will be given to the implementation of projects to solve real cases. Featured in the agenda will also be discussions …
On March 1 PrivatBank, a leading Ukrainian bank, launched an advanced P2P and P2B lending service, allowing individuals and businesses to borrow money from each other directly. Christened ‘Profitable Investment Service,’ this offer aims, first of all, to “provide small businesses and individuals with an opportunity to borrow money quickly and at low interest rates,” PrivatBank …
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Ukrainian digital activists have failed to persuade PayPal to make its service fully available to Ukrainian users, the local tech blog AIN.UA reported last week. Following a meeting earlier this month with PayPal executives in Warsaw, one of these activists, Ilia Kenigshtein, has expressed his bitter disappointment over the US company’s lack of interest in the Ukrainian market.
Starting Feb. 13, Ukrainians can receive electronic payments from non-residents of Ukraine in foreign currency, according to a statement by the National Bank of Ukraine on Feb. 12. This ruling opens the way for citizens of other countries to transfer electronic money to accounts in Ukrainian banks. “Individual is entitled to receive electronic money, issued by the nonresident …
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Stas Prisiazhnuk, a 16-year-old entrepreneur from Donetsk, a war-torn city in Eastern Ukraine, is expecting to receive $40,000 in seed-stage funding from Muru-D, a Australian startup accelerator program, to develop his fintech project Persollo. Muru-D will receive a 4% stake in the company. The young entrepreneur told Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA that the project had …
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Innovecs, a Ukrainian-American software development company, now accepts payments in bitcoins via the BitPay platform, reports tech blog AIN.UA. The platform will automatically convert US dollar amounts into bitcoins. The corresponding invoice is sent to the client along with a QR code including the payment details. The bitcoins are transferred to Innovecs’s account and then converted into …
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Earlier this month American-Ukrainian software development company Innovecs launched a Blockchain research and development center in Kyiv (Kiev). The center was set up with the participation of Mikhail Chobanyan, co-founder of Bitcoin Foundation Ukraine (BFU). A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of data records. This technology offers protection against tampering and revision, even …
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The legal firewall blocking access for Ukrainians to international banking and online payment systems is set to come tumbling down as the National Bank of Ukraine removed a number of barriers in cross-border payments and commerce. E-payment systems like PayPal can now fully operate in Ukraine. Previously, Ukrainians could purchase goods abroad using PayPal, but it …
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