Russia’s new brand of banking

Oleg Tinkov is at the forefront of the consumer-banking boom that is changing Russian finance. Tinkoff Credit Systems encapsulates all that is innovative – and risky – about the sector. This bank and others like it have everything the state banks lack. But in Russia that can mean trouble.

This is not the kind of bank or bank owner you might expect in Russia, a country that still has a reputation for bureaucracy, drab offices and an oligarch– and state-dominated banking system.

Oleg Tinkov is the founder of Tinkoff Credit Systems: a branchless Russian bank specializing in credit cards, with a heavy focus on marketing and the internet. Specialized retail lenders in Russia have rapidly outpaced conventional commercial banks over the past two years, and none more so than Tinkoff.

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