Products Software Number of employees 1,038 (2008) Headquarters Novosibirsk | Revenue 3 883 mln. RUB (2009) Website www.cft.ru Founded 1991 | |
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Key people Andrey Visyashchev, (Chairman) Profiles |
Center of Financial Technologies (CFT) (Russian: Центр Финансовых Технологий, Centr Finansovyh Tekhnologiy) is a Russian software company that provides software solutions and services to financial, healthcare and public sectors. It has been described as "Russia’s national payment system (like PayPal for Russia)". It is among the five largest software developing companies operating on the CIS market.
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Operations
The Company offers banking software and processing services:
Banking software
In financial services, the company's software is used in retail banking and corporate banking to automate processes. CFT also provides solution to capital market activities.
Processing services
Market role
CFT Group is among the top five largest software developers on the Russian market. According to IBS Intelligence, CFT occupies the 1st place according to the number of new contracts for core banking system on the Russian and CIS markets. Among CFT customers are such banks as Sberbank of Russia, Gazprombank, MDM Bank, and Uralsib.
Criminal Investigation
On the 17th of November 2016 Russian investigators searched the offices of CFT in connection to the ongoing investigation of the criminal case against Group Board Member and Chairman of CFT Nikolai Smirnov and others under article 127.1 of the Criminal Code ( "human trafficking"). See reference 3 below for an English-language account of this case.