Anonymous payments "lose weight»

The fact that the authorities have proposed to reduce the maximum size of instant payments of up to 3 thousand, it became known last week, reports Russian newspaper ". However, in the State Duma, the initiative reacted cautiously. Thus, the head of the Duma Committee on Financial Markets, Vladislav Reznik said he sees no reason to make a payment less than 15 thousand rubles. Otherwise, it is better to prevent a. Financial Ombudsman Pavel Medvedev also said that the statement of Federal Financial Monitoring Service can be regarded as alarming. He stressed that without the creation of a civilized settlement system in accordance with the recommendations of the FATF (Financial Action Task Force against money-laundering) is impossible and the creation of an international financial center in Moscow. It is worth noting that now on the recommendations of the FATF, many nations of the world impose stringent standards for non-cash payments via instant payment terminals and via the Internet. Emphasis is placed on the anonymity of such transfers, which allows their use for criminal purposes. For example, for money laundering and terrorist financing. Recall that by 2009 remittances through terminals in general no one accepted, and after the amendments to the federal law on combating money laundering, their allowable size rose to 15 thousand rubles. In addition, if in 2000 the world there were only about a hundred of electronic payment systems, but now their number had risen to several hundred in 37 countries.