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milar results were noted by a representative of the press service of Promsvyazbank. Since August 2024, individuals - clients of the bank have made several thousand transactions to transfer funds and pay for goods and services at retail outlets participating in the pilot project.

ut operations related to opening a digital account, replenishing it and withdrawing digital rubles to a bank account, and also accepted payments from individuals in digital rubles and returned payments for such operations. The testing results showed that the digital ruble is a convenient means of payment for both companies czech republic whatsapp number databa se and individuals," said a representative of the press service of Promsvyazbank.

"The first stage of the pilot gave us many opportunities to learn how to work with the digital ruble," said a representative of the press service of PJSC MTS Bank. "We were not only able to prepare technical solutions, but also gained unique customer experience. We have approached the next stage of the project's development, where we will be able to apply this experience not only in expanding its functionality, but also to a larger number of participants. During the pilot, we understood how to organize convenient customer paths for individuals who will open accounts on the digital ruble platform through us, make payment transactions, make transfers, etc. We also gained unique experience in working with a legal entity, in particular, we were able to test the acceptance of payments for cellular communications. This service turned out to be in great demand among the pilot participants."

A representative of the press service of Sberbank PJSC declined to comment, and representatives of the press services of T-Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, Sovcombank, UniCredit Bank, TKB, Rosbank, Gazprombank, Sinara Bank and Ingosstrakh Bank did not answer questions from a ComNews correspondent.

At a low start…
Oleg Komlik noted that the bank's infrastructure is ready to scale the digital ruble project and all that remains is to wait for the regulator's instructions to launch operations in full mode.

According to a representative of MTS Bank, the bank will implement the order albums in accordance with the regulator’s release policy and will be ready by the deadline set by the Central Bank.

"We are currently expanding the pilot in terms of the number of focus group participants, working on connecting new legal entities and planning to increase the range of functionality available to them in accordance with the Central Bank's plans. We expect the Bank of Russia to introduce new options for clients that will allow us to fully utilize the potential of the digital ruble. We will prepare the technical infrastructure for conducting transactions in digital rubles within the timeframes announced by the Central Bank," concluded a representative of the press service of Promsvyazbank.