National payment system against Visa and MasterCard

Finansy21-09-2009 National payment system against Visa and MasterCard in November 2009, the Government may be submitted bill "On the national payment system." It's an idea hovering in Russia long ago, to create a competitive world-promoted card brands have tried some of the most active representatives of the financial business. Among them were private companies and the Bank of Russia. The case is extremely difficult, but necessary if Russia really intends to become a global financial center. The project now has a team that is developing Russia's national system of credit cards. Write it planned on the basis of the existing Russian system, to reduce dependence on Russian market for foreign players, writes Lenta.ru. To date, the country has about 20 payment systems. But they all took a paltry market share. The biggest domestic players are ORPS and "Golden Crown", which occupy about 3% and 5% respectively. That's the Joint Russian payment system, established back in 2005 by the Central Bank and renamed in 2008 in the ORPS, positioned as a major national operator. She was supposed to start functioning on the basis of Savings "SBERCARD.