Unified information system for checking information about subscribers of telecom operators (UIS SIR)

2022: Successful System Testing

At the end of August 2022, new details about the unified information system for checking information about subscribers (UIS PSA) became known. The corresponding bill is in terms of priorities for consideration by the State Duma in the autumn session, Izvestia was told in the financial market committee of the lower house.

As one of the authors of the bill, the head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov, told the publication, the system will be state. It will help fight fraudsters using unregistered SIM cards when making bank transactions or receiving loans, he added. Aksakov stressed that by the end of August 2022, the system was tested and showed its effectiveness.

A unified system for checking subscriber data is being created in Russia

All comments on the bill were eliminated. There were questions from the Ministry of Digital Science, which wants this system to be state, not private. We have nothing against it. The Central Bank supports this initiative, - said Aksakov.

In accordance with the initiative, mobile operators will have to transmit to the UIS PSA the information they know (passport data and phone number). Thus, banks and other organizations will be able to verify information about citizens. This, in turn, will reduce cases of theft of customers' funds.

Initially, it was planned that such a system would be created by telecom operators or banks themselves, but in practice it turned out that this was difficult for them, Anatoly Aksakov explained.

MegaFon believes that the bill should take into account the interests of mobile operators, for whom the costs of maintaining the data storage and processing infrastructure and finalizing their own systems will be high. Earlier, operators have already opposed the bill.^[1]

2020: The Ministry of Digital Industry supported the creation of a unified IT system for checking information about subscribers

On November 17, 2020, it became known that the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media supported the creation of a unified information system for verifying information about subscribers of telecom operators (UIS PSA). but with one condition. The agency wants the integration of technology with a unified identification and authentication system (ESIA) used on the public services portal and in e-government services .

His deputy head Oleg Pak notified the chairman of the State Duma Financial Market Committee Anatoly Aksakov about this position of the Ministry of Digital Science in a letter sent on October 23, 2020, Kommersant writes. According to the ministry, the connection of the UIS PSA to the e-government infrastructure will ensure the transfer of data through secure channels.

The Ministry of Digital Development supported the development of a unified IT system for checking information about subscribers

The bill on the EIS PSA, developed by a group of deputies and senators led by Aksakov, previously passed the first reading, and in January 2020 it was finalized for the second reading. However, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, work on this initiative has slowed down, an informed source told the publication.

The authors of the project call its main goal to reduce the level of fraud by identifying a user of financial services by phone number. In addition, it is planned to introduce the concept of a subscriber number user not only for legal entities, but also for citizens, connecting all banks and all telecom operators to the UIS PSA within two years. The latter will have to check and update data in their databases.

EIS PSA will be used by the Bank of Russia, Rosfinmonitoring, credit organizations, payment systems operators, payment infrastructure service operators, etc. The maximum tariffs for the verification service will be set by the government, and the system operator will be determined by the authorized federal body in the field of communications in agreement with the Central Bank.^[2]

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