“We are currently working on the creation of an alternative payment system ... as for international payments, we are currently in the process of building a new payment infrastructure, an alternative to SWIFT, and I think that within the next year we will create a fairly effective system that will fully compensate for the payment system SWIFT,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier it became known that the European Union, as part of the next package of sanctions against Russia, disconnected Sberbank, Rosselkhozbank and Moscow Credit Bank from the SWIFT interbank system.
Economist, RANEPA teacher Vladislav Ginko commented in an interview with RT on the disconnection of a number of Russian banks from SWIFT.