Banks asked the Central Bank to simplify payments with Mir cards

According to Kommersant, the Association of Banks of Russia (ADB) contacted the Central Bank with a statement that foreign companies, including banks, would like to organize the acceptance of payments with Mir cards by trade and service companies. external (EET).

“In this case, foreign companies accumulate funds received from Russian banks for transactions carried out through ESP in their bank accounts and subsequently distribute them among their business clients,” the association notes in its appeal.

Under current law, foreign companies cannot be qualified as payment aggregators. They can only be legal entities that do not have the status of a credit institution.

The authors of the call believe that foreign structures should be allowed to become aggregators.

The Central Bank, in turn, requested additional information on the relevance of the application to open accounts in Russian banks for foreign legal entities. The ADB has begun collecting information, said the association’s vice president, Alexey Voylukov.

The publication’s source claims that although the circulation concerns only foreign online stores, there is now a fairly high demand on the market to organize a scheme, including from offline trade.