WikiLeaks: Russian national payment smistema hit by Visa and MasterCard

In February dispatch, published by WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy in Moscow Matthias MiTM, specializing in economic issues, argues that the bill in its present form poses Visa and MasterCard at a disadvantage, and recommends a high-ranking government official U.S. pressure on their Russian colleagues. Bill creating a national payment system in Russia should be considered in the Duma today. Assessment MiTM, Russian banks, which will be the operators of the new payment system, will collect an annual fee of about $ 4 billion. This money, which would lose such payment systems like Visa and MasterCard. Dispatch dated February 1, 2010. "Earlier, Moscow announced plans to create a new national system of payment cards, which would be charged a fee for all card transactions in Russia and thus would be deprived of income by Visa and MasterCard", - writes the newspaper Guardian, talks about what InoPressa. The publication adds that the bill also suggested a ban on the sending abroad of payments. Recently, Director of the Department finpolitiki Finance Sergei Barsukov said that the bill revised in the light alarms foreign operators, and promised that no additional restrictions on transferring money abroad will not be. In February dispatch officer of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow Matthias MiTM wrote: "We recommend a high-ranking government official to use the U.S. meeting with their Russian counterparts, including in the framework of bilateral presidential commission [Medvedev - Obama], and exert pressure on the Russian civil servants with the aim of such change bill to ensure that the interests of American companies payment will not be prejudiced, "- wrote in a dispatch MiTM. Source: NEWSru.com