He noted that everything will depend on the popularity of the digital ruble and the amount of funds that will end up there.
“But if about 10% of the funds will go from non-cash or even cash into a non-cash ruble, and this is money that will leave the banking system, then we can probably expect an increase in interest rates by about half a percent,” TASS quoted Popov as saying ...
He emphasized the realism of such forecasts.
Earlier, the Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Alexey Zabotkin commented on plans to create a digital ruble.
Honored Economist of Russia Yevgeny Goldfain, in an interview with Nation News, assessed the prospects for the digital ruble.