Non-commercial partnership National Payments Council (NPC)

 

NPC is a multipurpose cross-branch venue for discussion of approaches and determining a consolidated opinion of Russian national payments system participants.

NPC objective is to consolidate national payment system participants’ efforts to provide its stability and increase efficiency of institutional and infrastructural components, consolidate market participants’ opinions on issues of development, accumulate and promote best practices, promote cutting-edge technologies implementation across Russian payment market.

NPC founders are: Sberbank of  Russia (OJSC), VTB Bank (JSC), Alfa-Bank (OJSC), Promsvyazbank (OJSC), VimpelCom (OJSC), Unistream Commercial Bank (JSC), Deutsche Bank, Golden Crown (money transfer).

Among NPC members are the following organizations: Sberbank of  Russia (OJSC), VTB Bank (JSC), Promsvyazbank (OJSC), VimpelCom (OJSC), Unistream Commercial Bank (JSC), Deutsche Bank (Ltd.), CyberPlat (CJSC), Home Credit and Finance Bank (Ltd.), Western Union, Leader (JSC), Vnesheconombank, Otkritie (OJSC), Uniastrum Bank (LLC), SMARTBANK (CJSC), Russian Standard Bank (JSC), The FSUE Russian Post, Raiffeisenbank (ZAO), Moscow Industrial Bank, Sviaz-Bank, JSCB MOSOBLBANK (OJSC), Universal Electronic Card (JSC), Dengi Online, Association of Russian Banks, Exponank LLC, Investtotgbank  LLC, Sarovbusinessbank (JSC), “MegaLabs” (CJSC), Probusiness (OJSC), Vneshprombank (OJSC).

NPC has interaction agreements with Russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs, the Interstate Bank, Russian national SWIFT association, Russian E-money association, Association of  Trading Companies and Manufacturers of Consumer Electronic and Computer Equipment (RATEK), National partnership of microfinance market stakeholders (NAMMS), KPMG (CJSC), National Settlement Depository (CJSC), Citibank (JSC), Bank Zenit,  United Card Service (JSC) , Payment system “BelCard” (JSC), Non-commercial partnership “Professional directors community” (Directorium), competent specialized periodical “PLUS Journal”.

NPC interacts with the Bank of Russia on continual basis. Also, the NPC supervisory board comprises representatives from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, the Deposit Insurance Agency, and other relevant authorities.