YooMoney

YooMoney
Native name
ЮMoney
FormerlyYandex.Money
FoundedJuly 24, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-07-24)
Key people
Ivan Glazachev, CEO;
ServicesElectronic payment service
OwnerSberbank
Websiteyoomoney.ru

YooMoney branded as ЮMoney, formerly known as Yandex.Money (Russian: Яндекс.Деньги), is Russia's second largest electronic payment service after "Sberbank Online" according to a 2020 research by Mediascope.[1] It is an online payment service that works with two types of clients — individual users and merchants.

The service was originally a joint venture of Russia's leading search engine Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), and Russia's largest bank Sberbank. Currently, Sberbank owns a 100% stake in the company.[2] The program launched in 2002.[3] With new stakeholders, Yandex.Money obtained access to a broad payment infrastructure of Sberbank including ATMs, terminals and online banking.

According to a June 2015 public opinion survey conducted by TNS, 92 percent of Russians are familiar with the service, and 44 percent regularly use Yandex.Money to make payments.[4]

The company's headquarters are in Moscow, Russia. It has branch offices in Saint Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Ivan Glazachev is Yandex.Money Chief Executive Officer. He became the head of the company on 1 March 2017.[5]

  1. ^ "Исследование: «Сбербанк онлайн» остался самым популярным сервисом для онлайн-платежей, «Яндекс.Деньги» на втором месте — Финансы на vc.ru". 16 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Yandex and Sberbank Announce Joint Venture for Electronic-Money Solutions". Money.yandex.ru. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  3. ^ "Yandex — History — History of Yandex". Yandex. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference yandex.ru was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Ivan Glazachev is a New CEO of Yandex Money".