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Russia Switches to National Card Payment System for Business Sovereignty

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12:19 01.04.2015(updated 12:30 01.04.2015) Get short URL

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The introduction of the National Card Payment System decreases Russian users' dependency on foreign analogues.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Intra-Russian card transactions on Wednesday have begun using the National Card Payment System for processing, in an effort to reduce Russia's dependency on foreign payment systems.

March 31 was the deadline for Visa and MasterCard to switch the processing of their operations in Russia to the new system, yet Visa failed to do so.

Switching to a National Card Payment System was done in the interests of users and is intended for implementation of the operations within the international payment systems regardless of external factors, Russia's Central Bank said in a press release Tuesday.

In May 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law legislation establishing a national system of payment cards to safeguard financial operations in the country.

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The director of the Central Bank National Card Payment System department, Timur Batyrev, stated that the first batch of cards will be issued in the third quarter of 2015. The Central Bank announced a plan to issue 100 million national payment cards over the next two years.

In September 2014, the European Parliament urged the EU member states to consider excluding Russia from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) financial transaction system. In turn, Russia's Central Bank threatened to replace SWIFT with alternative channels of communication.

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