Mir Payment System is a potential Visa and MasterCard competitor. This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Andrei Chimnets in an interview, “says Moscow.”
he noted that foreign competitors deliberately slow down the development of the Russian payment system on the world stage. Leads find that the world map is absolutely working tool. “Gradually in Russia, a huge number of counterparties are connected – both banks, and shops. Large players and American, and Chinese brake a little,” the deputy noted.
According to Swinzov, the creators of the “World” need more actively impose their conditions abroad to become a substitute for Visa and MasterCard. “We just need to promote all Russian services more aggressively,” he suggested.
in the Kremlin admit that Russia can be disabled from Western Visa and MasterCard payment systems due to sanctions. The press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov also believes that the domestic “world” system has already sucked and over time will receive a global distribution.
Earlier, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow sees the need to move to a national or alternative dollar currency in settlements with other states and is actively engaged in refusal to the payment systems controlled by the West.