{"id":251408,"date":"2024-03-19T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2024\/03\/19\/251408\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:36:40","slug":"central-bank-of-armenia-reacts-to-armenian-banks-refusal-to-service-russian-mir-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2024\/03\/19\/251408\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Bank of Armenia reacts to Armenian banks&#8217; refusal to service Russian Mir cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 19. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> In response to the request of Arka news agency to comment on the refusal of Armenian banks to service &#8220;Mir&#8221; cards from March 30, the Central Bank of Armenia said that &#8220;commercial banks of Armenia independently decide which payment systems to cooperate with, based on their risk management strategies, including those related to sanctions&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian news agency RBC reported today that most of&nbsp;&nbsp;commercial banks in Armenia will stop servicing &#8216;Mir&#8217; cards from March 30. The only exception is VTB Armenia Bank (a subsidiary of Russia&#8217;s VTB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Central Bank, commercial banks are obliged to duly notify their clients in case of changes in service conditions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Director of the Central Bank&#8217;s Financial System Stability and Regulation Department Garegin Gevorgyan said at the Capital Markets Armenia conference that Armenia has not joined the sanctions against Russia, but observes them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want Armenia to become a center for foreign securities trading&#8230;.. From another point of view, we have to follow all the requirements, both on anti-money laundering and sanctions,&#8221; he said.-0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the request of Arka news agency to comment on the refusal of Armenian banks to service &#8220;Mir&#8221; cards from March 30, the Central Bank of Armenia said that &#8220;commercial banks of Armenia independently decide which payment systems to cooperate with, based on their risk management strategies, including those related to sanctions&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}