Russian national card can pay off abroad – RBC

The national system of payment cards (NBTS) has signed an agreement with the first kobeydzhingovoe MasterCard. This was at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, said deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Olga Skorobogatov. “Today NBTS and MasterCard signed the first agreement kobeydzhingovoe that card” Peace “and Maestro will be released in the near future” – said Skorobogatov, speaking at a session at SPIEF.

As the head of the Russian of MasterCard Ilya Ryaby, the new card will work worldwide. “We will have a new product – a new map” Peace Maestro », which will be in use around the world,” – said Ryaby. He explained that the Maestro – is a free-standing global network that uses technology infrastructure MasterCard. “It is fundamentally different from brand MasterCard, it was created as a brand of the ingredient, it is specially designed to add value to national systems, nor in any way encroaching on their identity,” – said Ryaby.

Act establish a national system of payment cards was adopted in May 2014, after the US and the EU imposed sanctions against Russia. The purpose of the NBTS officials announced ensuring continuity, effectiveness and accessibility of services of money transfer. Under federal law, all transactions with international payment cards in the Russian Federation shall be carried out using the infrastructure NBTS.

At the end of May, said Skorobogatov, which completed the transition to processing through the NBTS systems Visa and MasterCard. “We transferred all transactions on the cards MasterCard in April, and just yesterday we have completed a full translation of all the banks on the cards Visa», – she said May 28.

At the same time, “Vedomosti”, with reference to the information from the Banks reported that the NBTS yet does not process all the transactions of banks on the payment system Visa. One of the interlocutors edition said that acquiring Visa transactions have already been transferred to the NBTS, but emissions will be transferred in the third quarter of the year. “Now our bank partly Visa migrated, some transactions go through NBTS, but the final deadline – this is the last week of June,” – said another source of the newspaper. According to another source, currently only 25% of traffic comes through Visa NBTS.

Kobeydzhingovaya card is a joint product of two or more payment systems. Its distinctive feature is the ability to work in both the payment systems infrastructure.