News of Payment Systems
• Diners Club Russia will resume cards acquiring within the week
• US embassy cables: Revealed: US secret operation to help Visa and Mastercard
• MasterCard and Russian Standard Bank: unique money transfer service MasterCard MoneySend
• Sberbank of Russia: MoneyGram transfers are expected
• The volume of money transfers made by individuals to Moldova exceeded 1 bln US dollars
News of Banks
• Sberbank of Russia will double the number of credit cards in 2011
• VTB24 is planning to consolidate its ATM network with Alfa-Bank and TransCreditBank
• Surgutneftegazbank started issuing non-personalized payment cards and Internet cards
• Moscow Bank for Reconstruction and Development started acquiring Zolotaya Korona cards
Business. Technologies. Retail
• McDonalds restaurants started accepting cards all over Russia
• Beeline subscribers in Novosibirsk will be able to buy cinema ticket with a cell phone
Loyalty
• CBM and Afisha-Mir magazine launched a project TRAVELLER’S CARD
Fraudfighting and Security
• Card Declined: Visa, MasterCard Refuse Wikileaks Donations
• MTS offered the banks CIT operations monitoring
Card Society
• Foreign currency loans for individuals will be prohibited in Ukraine
