Sberbank

Sberbank, Russia’s largest state-owned bank, expands and installs blockchain-based ATMs to expand contactless transactions. Thanks to the distributed ledger tech (DLT), the ATMs will provide effective, safe, secure and fast touchless transactions and also offer a significant security and performance level.

Sberbank, a state-owned bank, has sealed a repurchase agreement, or repo, with the help of blockchain on Thursday 6, 2018. Now, the combination of DLT and smart contract sets financial contracts very diaphanous and seems to tighten the security for both the financial institution and the customers.

Sberbank and Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) have partnered to conduct a test on initial coin offerings (ICO) within the regulatory sandbox. As a result, they expressed an intention to find a way for token sales implementation and other services related to the fintech.

The Crypto market has seen many uses for blockchain technology and has started to get bored with all of them. A brand-new concept of decentralized blockchain state brought excitement to the public. Soviet Land is built on ideas of Communism and imitates the foundations of the USSR.

National Settlement Depository (NSD) and Sberbank CIB will trial a new regulatory platform that is set to make local initial coin offerings (ICOs) safer and easier to use for potential cryptocurrency traders, Sberbank reports. Designed by Russia’s Central Bank, the fintech project is powered by blockchain technology.

Sberbank CIB in a partnership with National Settlement Depository (NSD) has announced their intention to set up an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in the Bank of Russia’s regulatory sandbox. The issuer of the digital currency will be Level One, that operates the largest lecture hall on Moscow’s financial market.

In 2018, Gazprombank, the third largest bank in Russia by assets, is likely to perform its first pilot transactions using crypto coins as a means of payment. The incentive will be brought to life with the help of its subsidiary in Switzerland, said the deputy CEO, Alexander Sobol.

Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, and steel and mining company "Severstal" have successfully used Blockchain technology to conduct international letter of credit transactions.

R3 is not yet ready to accept Russian banks as members of the Blockchain consortium. The largest bank in Russia, Sberbank, wanted to join the R3 Blockchain consortium, however, R3 has made it clear that this application would be rejected due to sanctions.