Central Bank of Russian Federation

21 results about this entity

Period: 13 Sep 2004 - 24 Mar 2022

/security

Anonymous hacks Central Bank of Russia

Hacking collective Anonymous claims to have broken into the Central bank of Russia.

/payments

VTB Bank and PSB conduct first test transfers of digital ruble

VTB bank and PSB have conducted the first successful testing of operations with digital rubles issued on the test version of the Bank of Russia’s CBDC platform

/crypto

Russian banks to pilot digital ruble

The central bank of Russia is to begin pilot testing a digital ruble platform with 12 of the nation's banks.

/covid-19

Russian banks act to decontaminate cash

Russian authorities have moved to limit the number of banknotes in circulation and push consumers into using digital payments in an effort to control the spread of Covid-19.

/payments

Cashless payments are gaining pace according to Bank of Russia statistics

According to the Bank of Russia's data, cashless transactions (such as payments for goods and services, card-to-card transfers, and transfers to a bank account or a deposit) comprised over 90% of bank card operations of Russian nationals during the first half of this year.

/security

Russian central bank recommends registration of customers’ biometrics in Unified Biometric System

The Bank of Russia issued recommendations for banks, which will allow them to upgrade and optimise the operational processes used to register citizens in the Unified System of Identification and Authentication (USIA) and the Unified Biometric System (UBS).

/payments

Tinkoff Bank among first adopters of Faster Payments System in Russia

Tinkoff Bank has become an early adopter of the Bank of Russia’s Faster Payments System (FPS) as it continues to build out its payment services ecosystem.

/security

Russian central bank lays down security rules for protecting consumers biometric data

Methodological recommendations of the Bank of Russia regarding the mitigation of threats when working with the Unified Biometric System are based on the description of current threats specified in Bank of Russia Ordinance No. 4859-U, dated 09 July 2018.

Sberbank reports back on ICO financing trial

Sberbank and the National Settlement Depository (NSD) have summed up the results of a test deal to attract financing through an initial coin offering (ICO) using the Bank of Russia’s sandbox.

Russia to adopt ISO20022 messaging standard

As part of the Russian national payment system’s (NPS) migration to ISO 20022 international standard, the Bank of Russia has approved the standard setting forth the rules for financial message exchange during funds transfer operations at the payer’s initiative.

Russian central bank to run sandbox workshop

On 29 August, the Bank of Russia’s Corporate University will hold a special workshop dedicated to the functioning of the regulatory sandbox.

Finopolis 2018 invites startups to apply for fintech competition

The Forum of Innovative Financial Technologies FINOPOLIS 2018 will host the fourth FinTech startup competition.