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The Astana International Financial Center believes crypto regulation is “crucial,” noting that it also supports fintech innovation in the crypto, blockchain space.
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Yandex News
Yandex is a Russian multinational information technology company that was founded by Arkady Volozh in 1997 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia. Yandex is the largest IT enterprise in Russia and is the producer of Russia’s largest search engine. Yandex has offices worldwide, including a presence in Silicon Valley, Switzerland, Berlin and Shanghai. Yandex has launched such services as Yandex.Browser, Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Taxi, Yandex.Music and Yandex.Money, alongside many other products. The company is currently working on AI development, e-commerce, navigation and online advertising. Yandex.Money is a popular online payment service in post-CIS countries. It is quite common to buy Bitcoin with Yandex.Money in Russia. Most Russian-oriented cryptocurrency exchanges allow the usage of Yandex.Money for Bitcoin purchasing.
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Kazakh National Bank brings up crypto exchange and mining ban, citing lack of regulation and potential for money laundering.
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Organizations from Russia, China, and South Korea have come together to form a joint lawsuit against the four social media and tech giants that have recently banned crypto ads.
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A Yandex study has shown that Kazakhstanis are increasingly searching online for terms related to cryptocurrency.
31469 Cointelegraph caught up with Sergey Ponomarev, CEO at SONM, working to build a supercomputer powered by blockchain technology.
18512The Central Bank of Russia officially requested Yandex to disallow Alexei Navalny from raising funds using the Yandex payment application.
1166Earlier 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.
543Banks may start applying blockchain technology to scoring in 2016. That is the forecast of the 4th largest search engine worldwide company Yandex.
1171Russian Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey Moiseev informed a reporter that the Russian government would be banning Bitcoin within one year. That was in September, only a month ago, and it seems that they are moving forward much more rapidly. The Russian news blog, bitmakler.com, announced on October 5th that the Finance ministry has proposed a fine of up to 1 million rubles for the “production and use of money surrogates in Russian”.
566The popularity of cryptocurrency has finally reached Russia. Although this time, instead of making an almost complete analogue of Bitcoin, entrepreneur Alexander Borodich has in mind some significant differences for his new cryptocurrency.
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