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Share of non-cash payments in Russia to exceed 90% threshold by late 2026 or early 2027

TASS · 🇷🇺 public Russia · · 128 words
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What to know about Share of non-cash payments in Russia to exceed 90% threshold by late 2026 or early 2027

Alla Bakina of the Bank of Russia states that non-cash payments in Russia are projected to exceed 90% by late 2025 or early 2027. She notes that there has been no significant increase in demand for cash, with retail non-cash payments reaching 88.9% in the first quarter of 2026.

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What happened

The share of non-cash payments in Russia is expected to exceed the 90% threshold by the end of this year or at the beginning of 2027, Director of the National Payment System Department at the Bank of Russia Alla Bakina said, adding that no clear increase in…

Why it matters

"We actually expect to reach the 90% threshold by the end of this year or next year - early next year," she said.

Common ground

The regulator does not see a clear trend towards increased use of cash, Bakina added.

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Alla Bakina of the Bank of Russia states that non-cash payments in Russia are projected to exceed 90% by late 2025 or early 2027. She notes that there has been no significant increase in demand for cash, with retail non-cash payments reaching 88.9% in the first quarter of 2026.

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Claim 1: “The share of non-cash payments in Russia is expected to exceed the 90% threshold by the end of this year or at the beginning of 2027”
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The evidence provided contains a TASS report mentioning the 88.9% figure for Q1 2026, but there is no specific evidence in the provided text confirming the projection that non-cash payments will exceed 90% by the end of the year or early 2027. Only the TASS snippet is relevant to the general topic of non-cash payments in 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The involvement of Russia in the 2026 Iran war has encompassed a range of diplomatic, intelligence and logistical actions amid the conflict that began with coordinated airstrikes by Israel and the Uni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Russian: Центральный банк Российской Федерации), commonly known as the Bank of Russia (Russian: Банк России) or CB (Russian: ЦБ), also called the Central Ba…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia has an estimated population of 146.0 million as of 1 January 2025, down from 147.2 million recorded in the 2021 census. It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia
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Claim 2: “the share of non-cash payments in retail turnover grew by 0.9 percentage points to 88.9% in January-March 2026”
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The TASS web search result explicitly states: 'The share of non-cash transactions in retail turnover reached 88.9% in Q1 2026, according to the Bank of Russia’s analytical review.' However, this is the only source provided that confirms this specific statistic; other results (like the Malta Central Bank report) are irrelevant to Russia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russian(s) may refer to: Russians (Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries A citizen of Russia or a pe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian (Ivan Vassilovitch Dragovsky; Russian: Иван Васильевич Драговский) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an enemy of the Punisher and Spider…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_(comics)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
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Claim 3: “no clear increase in demand for cash has yet been recorded”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic bank homepages (Bank of America, Unison Bank, Foothills Bank) and general Wikipedia entries about the Central Bank of Russia. None of these sources mention the demand for cash in Russia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Russian: Центральный банк Российской Федерации), commonly known as the Bank of Russia (Russian: Банк России) or CB (Russian: ЦБ), also called the Central Ba…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of banks in Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — JSC Post Bank (Pochta Bank pronunciation; Russian: АО «Почта Банк») is a Russian consumer bank founded on January 28, 2016, and obtained a license from the Central Bank of Russia for banking operation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Bank_(Russia)
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