Rosbank: The introduction of a digital ruble requires large investments from banks – Bits Media

Rosbank, who takes part in the pilot program of the digital ruble, stated, that the introduction of state cryptocurrency will cost the program participants very expensive.

According to Olga Makhova, one of the top managers of Rosbank Olga Makhova, one of the top managers of Rosbank, expenses organizations under this initiative for two years compiled 150 Milly rubles. The largest investments were required to create a special infrastructure for calculations with digital ruble.

Operations with a digital ruble are held on the Central Bank's platform - banks are connected to it and act only by intermediaries. However, such a function has become for companies of burdensome, Since they had to “unfold complex cryptography” and rebuild the information security system. For this, Rosbank was forced to hire highly specialized employees.

“For banks, who were engaged in the introduction of a digital ruble, The issue of infrastructure development became very urgent. This is primarily IT workships, Installation of new equipment, Processing client data and mechanism for integrating transactions with a digital ruble into a mobile application ", - said an independent expert at the financial market Andrei Barhota.

Earlier, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets Anatoly Aksakov expressed his opinion, that a digital ruble can receive recognition outside Russia in two years. but, According to the Rambler survey&Co, A little less than half of Russians do not plan to use a digital ruble.