In 2018, the Russian segment of e-commerce was growing on the back of domestic sales and imports. A factor of growth is the development of payment systems with banking cards becoming an integral part of the everyday life of the Russians. At the same time, there is still a considerable...

The Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) for settling large payments, and CDSX for settling debt and equity trades, are two of the main settlement systems in Canada. They are closely linked; for example, at the end of the day the final CDSX payment obligations must settle on the Bank of Canada’s...