The Russian online bank Tinkoffannounced Wednesday that it was changing its name to T-Bank, marking a symbolic end to the lender’s association with its millionaire founder Oleg Tinkov, who has lived in exile since denouncing Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.“First there was a word, now there’s a letter,” the banksaid in its announcement.
“Simplifying the name is a logical step for both employees and customers.”T-Bank, Russia’s third-largest lender, said its 43 million customers would not notice the change, with its products and services continuing as usual under the new brand.CEO Stanislav Bliznyuklinked the name change to reputational concerns about associations with Tinkov, whorenounced his Russian citizenship in November 2022 and was designated a “foreign agent” earlier this year.“If you’re a family brand, the family name should be unblemished and beyond suspicion, like Caesar’s wife, whereas here it’s bloggers, then criminal cases,” Bliznyuk told the Vedomosti business newspaper.The online bank initiallyplanned to change its name in April 2022 after Tinkov criticized the war.
Bliznyuksaid later that year that Tinkoff Bank had bought out the brand name from the exiled founder and there was “no need” for a change.Tinkovsold his stake in TCS, a group that owns the former Tinkoff Bank, to Russian mining magnate Vladimir Potanin’s conglomerate Interros in April 2022.
The exiled businessman said the Kremlin hadpressured him to sell at 3% of the bank’s value.… we have a small favor to ask.
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