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As reported by bne IntelliNews, in terms of winning new users, the market leader Wildberries attracted 6mn clients from mid-March, up 3-fold y/y, with its total client base reaching 30mn, while another e-commerce major Ozon saw an almost twofold increase in its number of clients in April, reaching 2.7mn.
Payment platform Paysera enters Kosovan market
The Central Bank of Kosovo has granted Paysera Kosovo, a subsidiary of Lithuanian electronic payment network Paysera, the first Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence in the country, the company said in a press release.
Paysera will offer in Kosovo cards, cheap or free transfers via the app, online payments and payment gateway solutions for business, as well as mobile payments through Google Pay or Samsung Pay, and in the future Apple Pay.
“For example, Kosovo residents and businesses now pay €25 for a money transfer to EU countries, but not for long. It will cost individuals nothing to send money domestically and to EU countries through the Paysera online banking and app, and the fee for business will not exceed €1,” says Bashkim Zeqiri, CEO and main shareholder of the electronic money institution Paysera Kosovo, which brought the international payment network to the country.
According to Paysera CEO Vytenis Morkunas, Paysera's arrival in Kosovo may also be of interest
to Kosovars living in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, who send money to their relatives in their homeland. Paysera has already started to recruit more than 20 programmers in Kosovo.
AliExpress to invest $15mn in deliveries
in Russia
The logistics arm of Alibaba Group will invest RUB1bn ($15mn) in its IT and logistics development in Russia, the company's representatives told Vedomosti daily.
As reported by bne IntelliNews, AliExpress and Tmall e-commerce platforms in Russia operate under the umbrella of AliExpress Russia, the joint venture of Alibaba, Mail.ru Group internet major, Megafon mobile major and Russian Direct Investment Fund.
The logistics arm of Alibaba Cainiao plans to localise its IT system used by vendors to manage deliveries and inventories in Russia. In China, the system allows delivery of orders within 24 hours, while currently in Russia Tmall and AliExpress deliver in two to nine days.
The number of sorting and stockage facilities
is also planned to be increased from the two currently operated in Russia, Aliexpress told Vedomosti without providing more details. Aliexpress Russia's Tmall platform ranked 6th of all e-retailers in 2019 with RUB36bn in sales, soaring by 162%.