Tag: Russia

Five years ago, we noted the importance of domestic payment systems in the BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India, and China, ...

If you were going have project plan on how to invade a neighboring country, one of the principal factors to ...

This piece in OMFIF presents a bit of a different take on the potential impact of using payment rails as ...

If the U.S. State Department's latest advisory of "Level 4: Do Not Travel" doesn't stop you from visiting the Kremlin ...

This WSJ posting is meant to describe a bit about SWIFT and why it is being discussed as a lever ...

My background is in payments not geo-political conflict, but I find it interesting how political payments infrastructure has become. We see ...

Buy Now, Pay Later has global implications.  The trend is more than Australia, US, and Europe.  In Russia, some estimates ...

More and more countries around the globe endeavor to create their own payment networks in an attempt to become more ...

As of 2020, 74.6 million debit cards were issued by Mir, representing 28.62% of all debit cards in circulationSince 2016, ...

The Russian government is experimenting with currency and blockchain-based solutions that would serve as an alternative to the SWIFT payment ...