{"id":15225,"date":"2020-08-18T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=15225"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:56:04","slug":"how-russians-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/how-russians-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"How Russians pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research company Mediascope has released a study on how and for what residents of large Russian cities make online payments. The study, conducted in May and June of this year, involved Russians aged 12-55 who are residents of cities with a population of 700,000 or more (or of a population of 600,000 or more in far eastern regions). The general findings of the study are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">93.7% of Russians living in large cities pay for goods and\/or services online at least once per year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online payments were most commonly made for mobile communications, online store purchases and utilities.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sberbank and Yandex.Money were the two most commonly-used payment services.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bank cards and internet banking are the most popular means of making payments online.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contactless payments are slowly gaining in popularity in large Russian cities, with an increased usage of Apple Pay (18.9% to 20.2%), Google Pay (22.9% to 29.1%) and Samsung Pay (15.5% to 17.4%) in the last year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More findings from the study can be found<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comnews.ru\/content\/208143\/2020-07-17\/2020-w29\/kak-rasplachivayutsya-rossiyane\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-15225 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Hackathon encourages student participation in business world'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/hackathon-encourages-student-participation-in-business-world\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1992-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12412\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12412'>\n\t\t\t\tHackathon encourages student participation in business world\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='FinTech bridging USD 2 trillion small business funding gap'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-bridging-usd-2-trillion-small-business-funding-gap\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fintech-bridging-usd-2-trillion-small-business-funding-gap-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-13354\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-13354'>\n\t\t\t\tFinTech bridging USD 2 trillion small business funding gap\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Sberbank launches internal accelerator for employees'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/sberbank-launches-internal-accelerator-for-employees\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sberbank-launches-internal-accelerator-for-employees-e1552393673148-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12408\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12408'>\n\t\t\t\tSberbank launches internal accelerator for employees\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research company Mediascope has released a study on how and for what residents of large Russian cities make online payments. The study, conducted in May and June of this year, involved Russians aged 12-55 who are residents of cities with a population of 700,000 or more (or of a population of 600,000 or more in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15227,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15225\/revisions\/15227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}