How is the pilot project progressing now? Are there any take advantage of gut blogging another tactic for intermediate results?
Currently 12 banks in the pilot group
Three more want to join, plus we have received several applications from non-financial organizations. It is too early to talk about any intermediate results of the current stage. All participants in the pilot are at different stages: some are moving very actively and finalizing their systems, while others are moving more slowly. But more than half of the pilot group banks are moving at a very good pace, we are meeting the stated deadlines. This is taking into account the adjustment of our plans — to begin testing on real transactions and real clients as early as April 2023, and not in 2024.
did you decide to speed up so much?
We realized that we need to move very quickly in terms of digital technologies and innovation development. In my opinion, all self-respecting countries will have a national digital currency within three years. And we will need the weariness of social networks to build cross-border cooperation in this direction as well. Therefore, we definitely need to be ready as soon as possible.
Plus, this also solves the issue of disconnecting from SWIFT, because ao lists with such integration, SWIFT will no longer be needed.