“VKontakte” has launched a money transfer service message – RBC

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“Vkontakte” launched a money transfer service: users via private messages can send up to 75 thousand rubles from their Bank cards. A similar service “Classmates” launched in February

“Vkontakte” launched money transfer through the users ‘ messages, the message of the press service of the social network, received by RBC on Tuesday. The technical side of the service is then provided by the Bank VTB 24, the company “Multicarta”, and processing Mail.Ru Group, said the company.

Translate using “Vkontakte” it is possible the amount of from 100 to 75 thousand. fee for sending funds from a Visa card is 1% of transfer amount but not less than 40 rubles For cardholders of Mastercard and Maestro cards until the end of 2016, fees for sending transfers will not be charged, the report says.

For transaction the user of “Vkontakte” need to link a Bank card will be debited. The card number of the recipient do not need: he decides where to transfer the transfer, the report says. Funds must come in time from several minutes to several days. The recipient will have five days to make the transfer — otherwise, the money will be returned to the sender on the map.

In the first stage, users of Vkontakte can transfer money through the dialogue on the website of the social network and in the official apps for Android and Windows Phone, the report says. The iPhone is only available the possibility of obtaining a translation through the app: to send means they will have to wait for the updates, reported the press service of “Vkontakte”.

According to “Vkontakte”, the number of registered social network accounts exceeds 380 million, every month the resource is visited by over 90 million users. The sole owner of “Vkontakte” — the Internet company Mail.ru Group, whose shareholder is billionaire Alisher Usmanov.

In February, the money transfer service between users, we launched a social network “Schoolmates”, which also belong to Mail.ru Group. As in “Vkontakte”, the service allows users to send each other money, not sharing Bank details.