The Central Bank announced that VTB, Sovcombank, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Otkritie bank cards will not work with ApplePay and GooglePay services.
Customers will also not be able to use their cards abroad, pay for purchases online, if the store or payment system through which the payment is made is registered in countries that support sanctions.
These banks were sanctioned by the UK, the EU and the US due to the war against Ukraine. The release of the Central Bank does not say anything about Sberbank, which was sanctioned by the US Treasury the day before. context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />War in Ukraine. Sanctions and economic consequences