00:00El empresario Olen Tingo, fundador de Tingo Bank en Rusia, uno de los primeros y más grandes bancos digitales,
00:08habló en exclusiva con nuestra compañera Regina Reyes Heroles, explicó los motivos que lo enamoraron de México,
00:14al grado que le gustaría convertirse en ciudadano mexicano. Escuchemos.
00:19¿Por qué México? ¿Qué te interesa en México? ¿Qué te hace tickle cuando piensas de México?
00:27Mi love to México empezó en 2005 cuando me first came to Baja, California.
00:35I immediately love it. It's one of the best places on earth.
00:39I traveled through Baja, California. I've been in every village there.
00:43I went on the boat to the very north, etc.
00:46And then eventually we built our family house there in Cabo San Lucas, called La Dacha.
00:52La Dacha means like fazenda or second house.
00:58I think you have in Spanish word for second house.
01:02Casa de Campo.
01:03Casa de Campo. Casa de Campo.
01:05And since then I realized that it's a great country because I bought the land, I built, I hired architects.
01:14I did the whole process. It's like, and I'm like, oh my God, it's very sophisticated.
01:19I expect it's like something like not developed country, you know, but no, it was cool.
01:24El empresario es mentor de los fundadores de Banco Plata, pues algunos miembros de su familia son inversionistas
01:31y él funge como mentor por su experiencia al fundar el primer banco digital en el mundo desde el 2006.
01:39You are also a narrativist and a mentor for everyone in the Plata team.
01:46And what does exactly mean?
01:50Yeah. Okay. Some people call me father of fintech. I started fintech in 2006.
01:59Actually in San Francisco, the idea come in, but I started in Russia, the venture called Tinkov Bank after my
02:06last name.
02:08And it appears to be the very first fintech before even fintech world was exist.
02:13And then we grew up to 80 million customers, second largest consumer bank in Russia.
02:22I'm not active anymore. I'm not operational because after leukemia and all these bad things happened with me for the
02:28last six years.
02:30I cannot devote more than one month being here in Mexico. That's for how long I'm here for.
02:36Usually I come twice for two weeks. And yeah, I'm helping Mary Toyardo and Daniel Anisimov and others and Bernardo
02:49Gonzalez to help build Banco Plata.
02:53Because even though they are great, but they're still young and they need to learn a lot.
02:59Oleg Tinkov señaló que busca reunirse con funcionarios como el secretario de salud para explorar la oportunidad de establecer la
03:07fundación de la familia Tinkov.
03:09Básicamente la idea es crear un registro para los posibles donantes de células madre, que es lo que las personas
03:17necesitan cuando se les diagnostica cáncer de sangre.
03:20You are here in Mexico because you're starting the Tinkov family foundation to begin investing in a registry for then
03:33having stem cell transplant.
03:38Transplant. Thank you. Why? Why do you want to do this? Why in Mexico?
03:43A few reasons. First of all, myself, since 2019, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, which is quite a
03:55sadly deadly disease and very difficult.
04:00And I went through bone marrow transplant, which is a stem cell transplant.
04:04And I was lucky to find a donor from Germany. And I've done this transplant.
04:11The idea of our family foundation is get five, ten million potential donor.
04:20So less people are dying in Mexico and actually in the U.S., Mexican region, because as you know, about
04:2830 million Mexicans are living in the U.S.
04:31Even though they live in the U.S., they also do not have access to the donors because there's no
04:35donors in the region, no match in the registry.
04:38That's the idea of the foundation. And we will try to do it serious, professional, because thanks to Banco Plata,
04:47they have good engineers and developers that help us to develop database.
04:58Así que le invitamos a que no se pierda la entrevista completa con el empresario Oleg Tinkoff, fundador de Tinkoff
05:05Bank en Rusia, esta noche a las 8 con 45 minutos por la señal de Milenio Televisión.
05:11Además de Milenio Diario, Milenio.com no se lo pierda.
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