Russian Financial Sector Update
Bank of Russia FINANCIAL SECTOR OVERVIEW
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation
NATIONAL PAYMENT CARDS SYSTEM
Setting the standards for the payment industry to provide convenient and stable services
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NSPK
NATIONAL
PAYMENT
CARDS
SYSTEM
MIR
✓ Russian national payment system "Mir" was created on 23 July 2014
✓ Operator of Mir Card Payment System is National Card Payment System Joint-Stock
Company, 100% of its shares belong to the Bank of Russia
✓ Strong authentication MirAccept at online payment is provided
✓ 1.0 3D-Secure standards and technologies have been developed and implemented
✓ Co-badging projects with international payment systems: Maestro, JCB, AmEx and
UnionPay
✓ Support of mobile payment service Samsung Pay
✓ PayPass system has been successfully implemented
✓ Payment system "Mir" launched a loyalty program which allows card holders to receive
cashback
✓ More than 30 mln "Mir" payment cards were issued by year end 2017 in RussiaView entire presentation