“Those 13 banks that we named, they really have already begun to offer their customers the service of opening a wallet in a digital ruble and conducting operations,” said Skorobogatova.
In total, banks have already made several thousand transactions, despite the “roughness” and “some incidents.”
“But this is normal for the pilot, we are just eliminating them both on the side of banks and on the side of the platform, if we see them,” the deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation said.
Among the declared organizations were VTB, Gazprombank, Alfa-Bank, Promsvyazbank, Sovcombank, Rosbank, Dom.RF, Sinara, Ingosstrakh, Transcapitalbank, Ak Bars, MTS-Bank and Qiwi Bank. Previously, the list also included Sberbank and Tinkoff.
The law on the introduction of the digital ruble into the banking system was adopted in July. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which is assigned the status of the operator of the CBDC platform, now has the right to refuse any commercial bank to conduct a transaction.
Earlier, Skorobogatova said that the digital ruble cannot be bought in physical form, and all offers of such a product are fraudulent.
According to a survey by the Rambler & Co media holding, a little less than half of Russians do not plan to use the digital ruble, which the country’s authorities have recently begun to implement.
Source: Bits
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