Overview
QIWI plc is a Russian company that provides payment and financial services in Russia and CIS countries. The group includes QIWI payment system, QIWI Bank, CONTACT money transfer system, Factoring PLUS, Flocktory, and RealWeb. The company has representative offices in three countries.
The payment network has more than 16.6 million wallets and virtual cards, as well as almost 106 thousand terminals and payment points.
History
QIWI Group was founded by Sergey Solonin, Boris Kim and Andrey Romanenko in 2007. In November 2012, Visa and QIWI signed a global partnership agreement, under which QIWI Wallet was transformed into a co-branded product Visa QIWI Wallet.
In 2013, QIWI went public on the NASDAQ, the shares were traded at $17 per share.
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