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Yandex Pay announced an increase in the rate on savings accounts and benefits for late payments due to service failures.
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Yandex Pay will increase the rate on savings accounts for all current users to 20% per annum for a week without additional conditions.
Payments on a 'Super Split' or loan that are overdue on the days of the disruption will not be considered overdue and the terms of repayment will remain the same.
MOSCOW, October 13 - RIA Novosti. “Yandex Pay”, due to failures in the service, will increase the rate on savings accounts for all current users to 20% per annum for a week without additional conditions, said Dmitry Pirogov, head of the fintech department of Yandex.
“We decided to increase the rate to all current users of savings accounts in Saves to 20% per annum for the week, from Sunday, October 11 to October 17 inclusive, without additional conditions. Information about accruals will be gradually displayed in the transaction history,” Pirogov said in a message on the Yandex Pay Telegram channel.
According to the announcement, Super Split or loan payments that are overdue on the days of the disruption will not be considered late, and the repayment terms will remain the same.

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