Tag: Russia

The Central Bank of Russia launched the Mir payment card following sanctions from the 2014 Crimean War. Mastercard and Visa ...

1Q22 results show that Russian exposure affected net revenue at some top banks, but credit cards performed well. Bloomberg reported: ...

Credit cards in Russia are in distress. The exit of major payment brands certainly disrupts the ability to access credit ...

This piece posted in Bloomberg is somewhat of a reprise of one we saw a couple of weeks ago in ...

U.S. consumers continue to feel the pain of rising prices, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising another 0.8% in ...

Discover and American Express joined Mastercard and Visa’s shutdown in Russia. Amex’s Stephen J. Squeri announced in a statement on March 6, ...

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 ...