According to Nina Gavrilova, Deputy Minister of Communications and Informatization of Belarus, Belpochta implements systems of remote payment for services with use of mobile and bank cards.
The Bank of Russia has prepared a security card use guide for cardholders, which is published in “The Bulletin of the Bank of Russia”, dated October 7, 2009.
Northern bank of Sberbank of Russia has opened two automated self-service bank mini-offices of 24x7 access in Yaroslavl (in Dzerzhinsky district). Northern bank is the first bank in the system of Sberbank of Russia, which has bought and established such offices.
According to the regular report of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), during January – July of 2009, deposits and other private borrowed funds in Russian banks increased almost by 12 percent – from 5.907 trillion to 6.614 trillion roubles.
Slogans of the largest Russian banks do not arouse any trust among 30 percent of their potential customers. These are the results of the poll held by Credcard.ru, in which 1006 web-portal visitors have taken part.
Coming into force of the requirement of the law on obligatory cash register installation into payment terminals is suggested to postpone for one more year.
Russian Europay Members’ Association, uniting 119 Russian credit organizations – MasterCard payment system members – has announced its joining of PCI Security Standards Council. As a member of the Council the Association will take part in developing PCI DSS data security standards and other payment card–related standards.
On September, 29, 2009 the board of directors of the Bank of Russia has made a decision to decrease the official bank rate by 0.5 percent to 10 percent since September, 30, 2009.
Against the reduction of number of offices in total, Russian banks open new offices for service VIP–clients servicing. At least 7 large banks have already increased the number of VIP–offices or plans to do it till the end of 2009.
JSC SITRONICS (SITRONICS or the “Group”) (LSE:SITR), a leading provider of telecommunications, information technology and microelectronic solutions in Russia and the CIS, with a growing presence in other EEMEA emerging markets, today announced that its subsidiary SITRONICS Smart Technologies (SST) has won a tender to deliver Visa and MasterCard chip bank cards during a three year period for Sberbank of Russia, which is the largest bank in Russia and the CIS.
According to Committee on payment systems and banking tools of the National Association of Electronic Commerce Members (NAUET), in the first half of 2009 the turnover of the instant payments market has totaled 299 billion roubles, and that is by 19 percent more than at the same period of 2008.
As of September, 1, 2009, Sberbank of Russia has issued over 35.4 million cards, and
from the beginning of the year its issue has increased by 5 million cards (16.4
percent).
According to central administration of the payment system of the National bank of Belarus, local banks should provide a step-by-step transition to use of BelKart cards for salary projects in state-financed organizations and state enterprises till the end of 2010.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), in August, 2009, the volume of private deposits has increased by 1.3 percent (from the beginning of the year this indicator has reduced by 5.4 percent) and has totaled 203.9 billion grivnas (or about $39 million).
According to Alexey Simanovsky, director of Banking Regulation and Supervision Department of the Bank of Russia, the Central Bank will continue decreasing rates in case of the further delay of inflation.
According to participants of the meeting in the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia devoted to cooperation with Russian Post, using opportunities of Russian Post will enable to accelerate considerable expansion of a network of the multipurpose centers for governmental and municipal services throughout the Russian Federation and will save some budgetary funds.
According to the Bank of Russia, in July, 2009, the volume of personal credits issued by Russian banks was reduced by 0.4 percent, from the beginning of 2009 the portfolio has decreased by 8.3 percent. Thus on August, 1, we’ve seen a negative dynamics for the 12 months before the reporting date, – a 1.5 percent decrease. And it’s the first time for the last 1.5 years. At the same period of 2008 the gain was 25.8 percent.
As Michael Sukhov, a representative of the Central Bank of the Russia, has declared, on August, 1, 2009, a share of the delinquent loans has grown to 5.4 percent of the total credit portfolio of Russian banks.
