The head of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina stated that it did not find reasons for which the Wildberries International Wildberries International Payment Systems and MasterCard could intervene. During the press conference, on the basis of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Regulator, it refused to consider the situation with something extraordinary. Video posted on the page of the Central Bank in Youtube.
According to her, everything that happens remains the subject of contractual relations. The Bank of Russia does not believe that there is a violation of legislation, which means there are no grounds for any solutions.
The confrontation continues from mid-August when Wildberries announced discounts in the amount of two percent of the cost of goods when paying for orders “Peace” by the system of rapid payments or Sberpay. The company explained such a policy significantly lower cost of transactions of Russian payment systems.
After that, Visa began an investigation into the actions of the retailer, considering that this is discrimination, which negatively affects consumers and business.
Head of the National Payment Card System (NPC, Operator “Mira”) Vladimir Komlev stressed that what is happening is due exclusively with the decision of Wildberries. The Russian payment system, according to him, did not provide any special conditions of the retailer.
less than a week after the start of the discounts in Wildberries reported that the World Maps became the most popular payment method among buyers.