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FPS to enable pull transfers between client accounts
The Bank of Russia has announced a new service to be offered by the Faster Payment System (FPS), which will allow people to request funds for transfers from their own accounts, the regulator’s website informs.
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Russians will use driving license as ID in banks
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade in collaboration with Rosfinmonitoring and the Bank of Russia is drafting a law to allow the driving license data to be used for simplified identification of individuals, informs Izvestia with reference to the central bank.
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Russian banks’ appetite for gold returns after six-month pause
Russian banks increased investments in precious metals expressed as gold by 8.5% to 79.6 tons in May – for the first time in six months, the Bank of Russia’s statistics shows.
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State-run system set to protect transport from hackers
Russia’s Ministry of Transport decided to establish federal-level control over the protection of transport from hacker attacks. The system developed by the ministry will be responsible for online monitoring of the information infrastructure of the transport industry.
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Mir launches transfers to cards of CIS national payment systems
Starting June 29, the National Payment Card System (the Mir payment system operator) launches transfers from Mir cards to the cards of the national payment systems of Uzbekistan (Uzcard) and Kyrgyzstan (ELKART).
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Herman Gref: ruble may strengthen against dollar by 2020-end
The Russian ruble may strengthen to the rate of 60-62 rubles per US dollar By the end of 2020, Sberbank Governor German Gref said in an interview with TASS.
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DDoS attacks in RuNet rose fivefold during lockdown
The fivefold jump in the number of DDoS attacks was recorded during the COVID-19 lockdown (March-May 2020) compared to the same period a year earlier, says a report prepared by Rostelecom experts for the period of first five months of 2020.
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Russian-Chinese MPS123 launches super-application in Russia
The Russian-Chinese payment system MPS123 signed a partnership agreement with the Chinese counterpart of the “One Belt, One Road” project.
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Tinkoff implements new QR code recognition technology
As part of the expansion of cooperation between digital bank Tinkoff and Smart Engines software company, new QR code recognition technology has been introduced into the mobile bank for paying various receipts and making payments.
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Durov commented on Telegram unblocking in Russia
Telegram unblocking by Roskomnadzor will increase the speed of mobile applications in Russia, said Telegram founder Pavel Durov. Lifted restrictions will allow the messenger to increase its share in Russia and attract additional advertising.
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Yandex and Sberbank divide assets
Sberbank will become the sole owner of the Yandex.Money payment scheme, having bought Yandex’s participatory interest (25% plus 1 ruble) in it for about 2.4 billion rubles. Until the end of 2020, Sberbank will rebrand the asset and change its name. For the users and partners, the...
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Experts detected personal data leak of almost five million Russians
DeviceLock experts found a data leak of nearly 5 million users in the Russian Federation, presumably from one of employment portals’ databases storing contact information and full names of users, said Ashot Oganesyan, founder and technical director of DeviceLock, a company developing...
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Russians can now check suspicious phone number or website
Sberbank customers along with all citizens of the Russian Federation can now quickly and free of charge check a suspicious telephone number or a website for fraudulent activities.
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ABR: unprofitable banks grow in numbers
The number of unprofitable Russian banks increased significantly in 1Q 2020, growing from 16% to 28% of the total number of credit institutions. In April, the figure reached 37%, profit generation by credit institutions slowed down dramatically.
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Russia cancels bank roaming
The law prohibiting Russian banks to charge fees on inter-regional transfers within the same credit institution came into force.
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Russians become financially independent at 26
Russians, in their own opinion, are becoming financially independent by the age of 26, says a study conducted by Sberbank Life Insurance on the eve of Russia Day in 37 cities with populations in excess of 500,000.
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Yandex.Money: How Russians Pay Contactlessly
Over the year, the number of contactless payments via smartphones grew by about a third, the total payment value increased by a quarter, and the average check amounted to 445 rubles, says a survey conducted by Yandex.Money analysts.
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Tinkoff rolls out micro-investing service
Russian bank Tinkoff has launched a micro-investing service, letting customers round up debit card transactions and put the spare amounts into an ETF.
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Russian store goes cashierless with Sberbank and Visa
Russia's Sberbank has teamed up with Visa and retailer Azbuka Vkusa to open a cashierless store where customers simply take items from shelves and are automatically charged.
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Use of credit cards reduced dramatically
According to the NBCH, the number of credit cards in Russia, the holders of which used credit limits in April 2020, reduced to 47.4%, down 5.7% as compared to March (53.1%).