Central Bank of Russian Federation

21 results about this entity

Period: 13 Sep 2004 - 24 Mar 2022

Russian central bank mandate extended to cover information security at banks

A new federal law has been adopted. It sets forth legal grounds enabling credit institutions to counter unauthorised operations, including with the help of antifraud systems.

Sberbank to test digital asset investment platform for ICOs

Sberbank and Russia's National Settlement Depository are to run an Initial Coin Offering in the Bank of Russia’s regulatory sandbox. Level One, a company that manages Moscow’s biggest commercial lecture hall, will be the issuer.

Russian federation regulators denote blockchain and instant payments as key priorities

The financial regulators of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan held a Joint Payment Area Working Group meeting to discuss key trends and initiatives related to the use of innovative financial technology to develop and promote today's services across the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).

Open APIs, digital onboarding and DLT feature in Russian central bank fintech plan

Bank of Russia approves Guidelines for Financial Technologies Development for 2018-2020.

Russian central bank hit by $31m hacks

Russia's central bank says that hackers stole more than two billion rubles (around $31 million) from correspondent accounts this year.

Russian central bank to set up blockchain working group

For this purpose the Bank of Russia has established a Working group for analysing prospective technologies and innovations in the financial market.

MasterCard agrees Russian processing deal

MasterCard has signed a deal to transfer domestic Russian transaction processing to the country's new national payments system.

Russian central bank site hit by hackers

The Bank of Russia's Web site was taken down by hackers on Friday ahead of a meeting on interest rates.

Central Bank of Russia to use SwiftNet for RTGS

The Central Bank of Russia has signed a memorandum of understanding to use Swift's IP-based interbank messaging network, SwiftNet as its new real time gross settlement (RTGS) system.