Tinkoff Bank plans to ditch the second word in its name in 2019, Banki.ru reports.“I don’t like the word “bank,” it is said too often nowadays. We are not actually a bank. We are an online company competing with ecosystems like Yandex, Mail.ru, Amazon and such. We are an online IT company first and foremost,” the bank’s founder Oleg Tinkoff said at the staff party on December 6. 21.12.2017 | 17:41 Herman Gref dislikes banks and considers cards an atavism According to him, Tinkoff Bank intends to become Russia’s second largest financial ecosystem in the next three to four years, conceding only to Sberbank.“Obviously, we cannot compete with Sberbank. It is impossible, but we can and want to be the second. Being second to Sberbank is cool, because they have a monopoly, and we cannot touch them,” said Oleg Tinkoff.“Our goal is clear and I believe we will achieve it in three or four years. We have 8 million clients and we want 20 million. We want USD 1bn net profit, and this year we will have USD 400m net profit,” assured Tinkoff.It was revealed during the party that Tinkoff Bank has developed its own voice assistant, which is to be introduced officially in the next few days. Voice assistant “Oleg” will help the bank’s clients with financial and daily arrangements, for instance, transferring money or booking a table in restaurant.The partner of Fintech section is Tweet Views 33422