On 6 February 2017, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov held a meeting of the working group for implementing joint projects between QIWI Group and the Republic of Tatarstan. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information and Communications of Tatarstan Roman Shaikhutdinov, top executives of other ministries, agencies, and enterprises of the republic.
The working group discussed the course of preparing the application by QIWI Group for obtaining the SEZ Innopolis resident status, cooperation within the framework of the ongoing educational programmes for training IT professionals and upgrading skills of SME representatives in the Republic of Tatarstan. In addition, representatives of the QIWI Group group presented their project, a credit card called Sovest with an opportunity of interest-free use of loans. The participants to the meeting discussed practicable methods of launching this project in the most efficient way.