The media got information about the plans of Otkritie FC to buy out Roketbank for $ 4.5 million

Bank Otkritie FC will buy the online banking service of Roketbank for $ 4.5 million. In rubles, this amount is approximately 300 million. The transaction must be closed after a few days. This was reported by a source close to Otkritie FC, sources close to Rocketbank and Interkommerts Bank.

Source: Viktor Lysenko


In the opinion of Frank Research Group CEO Yuri Gribanov, the acquisition of Roketbank is in the logic of Otkritie’s acquisitions: “The deal is similar to the one with the Tochka service and says that Otkritie believes in technology market such services "
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“It was difficult for the project to“ take off ”during the processing of the Interkommerts Bank, and Otkrytie has more resources, opportunities and political will to develop this service,” the general director of the Frank Research group believes. Since it is difficult to raise funds now, one of the options is to sell the project entirely to an institutional investor.

“In the event that Rocket finds a buyer among banks, it is obvious that a change in the settlement bank will occur within the project,” said Gleb Klimentiev from Interkommerts Bank. For clients of the Roketbank service, a possible change in the settlement bank will take place “almost imperceptibly,” he added.

Negotiations on the sale of Roketbank were also conducted by the Orient Express and Tinkoff banks by Oleg Tinkov, RBC reports . The owner of Tinkoff Bank noted that such a purchase for him was “not at all complimentary.” He explained that Tinkoff Bank already has options similar to those offered by Roketbank. “Therefore, buying a second such product with such a team, part of which will inevitably leave, made no sense,” he said.

On September 9, Megamind wrote that Oleg Tinkov offered to the founders of Roketbank to sell it for $ 1 million if the post of an entrepreneur about a possible purchase of this application collects 2,000 likes. He also warned that on September 15 the amount offered by him would drop to 1 ruble. The co-founder of the service, Oleg Kozyrev, said then that he considered such a sum to be frivolous.

Oleg Tinkov has a special relationship with Roketbank. One of the founders of Roketbank, waylaid Tinkov on the street and asked what he thought of the new service. Tinkov replied that the application is beautiful, but there is no bank. Then a comment with a photo of Tinkov came online. The negative reaction of the entrepreneur was used for public relations of a competitor. Rocketbank competes with Tinkoff Bank in the field of online banking.

The target audience of the application is young people aged 25–35 years. The bank was established by Oleg Kozyrev, Viktor Lysenko, Alexey Kolesnikov and Mikhail Provision. The Rocketbank project was initially developed with the money of the founders themselves, later they attracted funds from the Runa Capital fund and the Life.Sreda fund. Runa Capital invested $ 2-3 million in the Rocketbank project in exchange for a 20–30% stake.