Bank of Russia Concedes Creating Digital National CurrencySpeaking at the conference titled “Blockchain and Open Platforms” held by Bankir.ru, Olga Skorobogatova, deputy chairwoman of the Bank of Russia, told about possible development of digital national currencies and banking industry’s interest to distributed ledgers.
The Central Bank of Russia Expects Blockchain-based Financial Systems to Emerge by 2018The Bank of Russia believes that emergence of blockchain-based systems for financial markets is very likely to happen in 2017 or 2018. Olga Skorobogatova, deputy chairwoman of Russian Central Bank, stated during her meeting with representatives for commercial banks: “From the regulation and financial market protection points of view, the technology will probably be used […]