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September 2020 www.intellinews.com @bneintellinews
Belarus' IT workers exit the country
A brutal crackdown on Belarusian protesters following the August 9 presidential election, rigged in favour of incumbent Alexander Lukashenko, has prompted a massive exodus of local IT companies and individual IT professionals.
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Belarus' IT workers exit the country 2 Russian online giant Yandex mulls financial ecosystem investments 3
Leaders 5
Mail.ru Group and Sberbank invest
again in food delivery 5 Poland tables draft bill that could
chase Huawei off the market 6 Russian big three e-commerce
firm Ozon sees record turnover on pandemic-fuelled online shopping
surge in 2Q20 7
Investment 9
KYC start-up Sumsub secures $6mn
from Russian investors 9 Roman Abramovich backs game
publisher to design “fun, thrilling,
and engaging entertainment
experiences” 9 Target Global bets on Russo-Estonian startup “to disrupt crypto payments” 10
Fintech & E-commerce 11
AliExpress Russia plans facelift as e-commerce competition tightens 11 Czech Paketa courier reaches
partnership with Romanian
e-commerce platform 11 Russia's e-payment company Qiwi
releases strong 2Q20 financial results 12
Telecom 13
5G auction in Czechia challenged by
the major mobile operators 13 Romania unlikely to award 5G licenses
this year 14 Russia’s MTS released solid 2Q20
IFRS numbers 15
NIBs 16
In spite of Lukashenko's neo-Soviet system, Belarus has managed to establish a world-class IT sector that accounts for 5% of the country's total exports. The IT industry has been a haven
of prosperity in the otherwise unreformed economy.
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Russian online giant Yandex mulls financial ecosystem investments
The Russian online giant Yandex is considering venture onto the financial service terrain, while also restructuring its marketplace
business in the wake of a divorce with the state-run lender Sberbank.
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