The conditions of the agreement include the delivery of the Wincor Nixdorf’s mono– and multifunctional ATMs and the service support of ATMs in the territory of the Russian Federation.

The Russian Government has approved amendments to the Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Aksakov, Deputy of the State Duma and President of the Association of Regional banks of Russia, brought for consideration to the Lower House of the Parliament.

According to Jonathan Knaus, Regional Vice–President in Eastern Europe & CIS of Western Union, in 2009 the total volume of remittances from Russia reduced by 30%.

According to the press–office of Armeconombank (Yerevan, Armenia), as of March 1, 2010, Bank issued 82,600 cards – 17.8% of all cards banks–members of ArCa payment system issued, and 24.6% of all local cards in the country.

From the beginning of 2010, Zapsibcombank has increased issue of classic and premium cards: over 6,000 customers have chosen premium ones.

According to the National Bank of Moldova (NBM), in January, 2010, the volume of individuals’ remittances to Moldova totaled $63.39 million, and $50.82 million of them were transferred via international remittances systems. 47.5% of remittances were in US dollars 46.1% – in Euro, and 6.4% – in Roubles.

According to Ara Karyan, director of RASCO insurance company (Armenia), the company together with its London reinsuring partner prepares the offer for Armenian banks of commerce on the complex bank risk insurance program BBB (Bankers Blanket Bond).

Management of Mail.Ru and Molotok.Ru have discussed the future of e–commerce in Russia.

URALSIB Bank is going to increase its card issue in 2010 by 20–30%, without cards on social programs.

NXP Semiconductors announced a major milestone for its ICODE product line, as the company successfully shipped over its billionth ICODE chip.

According to Vedomosti, Vkontakte.ru, a Russian social networking website, develops its own payment system. The representative of Vkontakte.ru said that the company didn’t make its plans on new projects public beforehand.

Z-Payment Company has signed the partnership agreement with Moneybookers electronic payments system. This agreement enables Russian Internet shops to accept all kinds of cards, to get direct bank remittances from abroad and payments from Moneybookers wallets.

At the end of 2009 a new Bank Privilege Program cooperative loyalty program was launched. The partner network of the project has united over 200 companies from 5 cities of Russia which provide participants of the program with discounts from 5% to 20%.

Novosibirsk Municipal Bank (NMB) started issuing Zolotaya Korona smart cards with the Novosibirsk single travel card application to pay for trips on the municipal public transport, including the Underground.

According to the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB), in the fourth quarter of 2009 in Belarus the total amount of individual persons’ card operations increased by 20.7% as against of the similar period of 2008, up to 11,714 billion Belarus roubles ($3.9 billion).

For today every second card issued in the region of Northern Bank, is the card of Sberbank of Russia. Every day Bank adds approximately 1,000 new card holders.

Russian version of Ukash system’s website (Great Britain) offers various ways to buy Ukash vouchers all across Russia. Before Ukash system distributed vouchers only via its official representative – Wallet One payment service.