The national Bank has cancelled the registration of the payment system WebMoney.ua

The national Bank has cancelled the registration of the payment system WebMoney.ua

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The company came under sanctions.

The national Bank of Ukraine took decision to cancel the registration of the domestic payments system WebMoney.ua.

The regulator explained that “the decision was made in connection with personal use of specific restrictive measures (sanctions) to the payment organizations of the domestic payments system WebMoney.ua (a Subsidiary of the “Financial company “Elmi”) in accordance with the decision of the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine from 02.05.2018 “On the application and cancellation of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions)”, promulgated by the decree of the President of Ukraine from 14.05.2018 No. 126/2018″.

The NBU noted that in the framework of the implementation of sanctions had also taken a decision:

1) revocation (annulment) of the license for money transfer in national currency without opening of accounts, issued by SE “FU “VM-Factor”;

2) cancellation of registration of the SE “FU “VM-Factor” as a participant of the payment system;

3) cancellation of registration of participants in domestic settlement systems “WebMoney.UA”;

4) cancel the registration of OOO “Paymaster” as operator of payment infrastructure services.

The national Bank said that the domestic rules of the settlement system WebMoney.ua provided calculations only for financial instruments. By the end of 2017 share WebMoney.ua in the market of internal transfers made via payment systems (excluding SEP and card payment systems), amounted to 0.2%, the first quarter of 2018 – 0,08%.

Meanwhile in WebMoney.ua said that because of the sanctions blocked the accounts of four million Ukrainians.

Recall that under the Ukrainian sanctions came as Russian WebMoney.ru and British WebMoney Europe Ltd.

The sanctions stipulate that the assets of the companies will block for three years, limit trading operations, prohibit the withdrawal of capital abroad, will suspend the execution of economic and financial liabilities, limit or suspend licenses and other permissions that ISPs block access to websites of companies and their subdomains. In General, in the sanctions list – 1748 individuals and 756 companies.

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