Russia's Web Payment Czar Looks West

摘要

In Russia, cash is still king-even online. That's thanks in large part to Qiwi, a business that lets security-conscious Russians shop and pay bills electronically without having to transmit sensitive bank account or credit card numbers over the Internet. Qiwi customers deposit cash in the company's ATM-style machines and use that money to pay their rent or phone bill- or leave it in PayPal-like online accounts for later.