Kostin decided to follow Gref’s example and create a digital ecosystem based on VTB

Andrey Kostin wants to be a little German Gref - VTB will develop its own strategy for its own digital ecosystem.

Read more . The bank is ready to pay 158 million rubles for the strategy, according to its tender materials. The strategy will involve the creation of "partnership platforms".

• Details are not specified , but, judging by the text, we are talking about something similar to the infrastructure of Sberbank, whose ecosystem, according to RBC, already includes more than 20 non-core companies, from a joint venture with Yandex in online trading to the DocDoc doctor search service .
• The need to create an ecosystem in VTB's materials is explained by the "global trend towards a decrease in the profitability of traditional banking products."