State Secretary, Deputy head of the Federal service for financial monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) Paul Livadny announced plans for deanonimizatsii electronic means of payment with simultaneous reference to their Bank accounts, write “News Economy”. Soon, the official said, discussing this question can connect to and banks.
“You can talk about significant risk to the anonymity associated with the unauthenticated electronic means of payment. Together with a number of the credit organisation, Bank of Russia, Finance Ministry discussed the possibility of the rejection of unauthenticated electronic means of payment by binding the payment instruments — electronic “wallets” and so on — to a Bank account. I think if this initiative passes. We will significantly increase safety, eliminate anonymity and create a serious economic incentives for the banking sector“, commented Livadny.
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<blockquote>For those who do not understand: the banks want the money. And no matter what you think of their own.
Nothing personal, just business.</blockquote>
At the same time he announced the intention to initiate a review of the bill to ban in Russia cryptocurrency: “currently, a draft law prohibiting the trafficking of cryptocurrencies in the Russian Federation. At the same time we cannot close our eyes to the fact that this tool is developing worldwide, and we have to look from a different angle — in terms of not prohibition, but regulation.”
As previously reported, a complete ban of cryptocurrencies in Russia is the Ministry of Finance. For the release, the purchase and sale of monetary surrogates violators face a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles or imprisonment up to 4 years. For the participants of the organised group — the penalty from 500 thousand to 1 million rubles or imprisonment for up to 6 years. For top-managers of banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions and professional participants of the securities market a fine from 1 million to 2.5 million rubles, and the maximum punishment is 7 years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to occupy certain position or to engage in certain activities for a term up to three years.
With regard to the Central Bank, in the organization are wary of cashing money through e-wallets. Now, according to the Chairman of the Central Bank Dmitry Skobelkin, this problem is dealt with by the Central Bank, the Ministry of communications and the Federal service for financial monitoring. And to deal with the cashing of funds through e-wallets, the regulator has created a special unit.
