As indicated by Russian paper Kommersant, the financiers were primarily worried over how incorporated the advanced cash framework, at present viable, may be whenever dispatched. The occasion included delegates from foundations, for example, Sberbank, VTB and Gazprombank, just as e-installment firm Qiwi.
Russian Standard Bank Chairman Alexander Samokhvalov, likewise at the gathering, revealed to Kommersant that the business banks would uphold a situation wherein they would fill in as middle people, however not one where the Bank of Russia keeps up all the individual computerized ruble accounts itself. The last offers “no room” for business banks and could cause a bank run, Samokhvalov said.
Another member told the paper namelessly that banks need greater lucidity on whether the computerized ruble is arranged as a choice to paper money or the current electronic installment framework. They said banks “don’t pay attention to” the possibility that the advanced ruble would be a third type of homegrown cash, as the Bank of Russia has said in a report.
The gathering occurred at the Fintech Association, a consortium of Russian banks and installment administrators which, in addition to other things, is building up the Masterchain blockchain stage. The Bank of Russia is intending to hold a progression of such gatherings, remembering a conversation for the Russian parliament, RBK news office revealed.
The national bank gave its report in October, delineating the potential situations for dispatching its a public computerized cash. Afterward, Chairwoman Elvira Nabiullina said that she sees the thought as “promising” and the computerized ruble, whenever seen well by the market, may be directed toward the finish of 2021. The choice on whether the undertaking will be dispatched hasn’t yet been made, with the Bank of Russia now in the data gathering stage.