News of Payment Systems
• China UnionPay cards are accepted in ATMs of AVTOVAZBANK
• Bank of Belarus has implemented a salary card project, based on BelKart cards
News of Banks
• Sberbank of Russia: the results of bank card operations for the first half of 2009
• Deposits of individuals at Russian banks exceed 6.316 bn roubles
• Rosselkhozbank: 17,000 cards in the Chechen Republic
• RESO Credit bank has joined USS
• Raiffeisenbank migrates to EMV
• Ukraine: the number of mortgage lending banks has decreased
• Bank PSKB has launched “KASSIRA.NET” payment system
• Asaka Bank has issued over 53.5 thousand cards
• In Belarus banks stops issuing loans to individuals in foreign currency
• Belarus banks stop conducting debit transactions with credit cards in foreign currency
• NBRB will keep its prohibition on crediting of individuals in foreign currency after 2011
• 2.6% of credits, issued by Belarus banks, are troubled
Business. Technologies. Retail
• Sberbank of Russia: results of the conquest among ATM suppliers
• BPC Service Center to support Citibank’s ATM network
• NXP Semiconductors Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results
• 1,000 ATMs are outsourced in UPC
• Electronic payment system e-port turnover has grown by 24%
• Now mobile money transfer service is available to Utel subscribers
• Rahaxi-OTI (Open Terminal Interface) for POS system vendors
Fraudfighting and Security
• An increase in illegal ATM software
Card Society
• Study of Russian International Purchases Using Credit Cards in 2009
• Total number of SIM cards, registered in Russia, reached 197 million
• All economically active Russians are card users
