Sberbank expects by year-end to obtain from the Russian central bank registration of its platform for issuing digital financial assets (DFA). This was stated by the head of the financial conglomerate Herman Gref, as reported by Prime.
According to him, Sberbank is in constant contact with the central bank on this matter.
In the initial phase of the initiative, the bank plans to issue on the platform its own digital assets, and then make the DFA-issuance functionality available to third parties, reported in September by Sberbank’s First Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov.
Earlier, in November last year, Gref stated that Sberbank planned to launch a platform that would allow users to purchase DFAs.
In January 2021, the bank applied to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for registration of a blockchain platform with the subsequent issuance of the Sbercoin, pegged to the ruble.
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