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Information technologies in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

The article is devoted to the creation, development, operation and reliability of information systems of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

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IT budget

2020: Pandemic forces Central Bank to cut IT spending

The Bank of Russia's capital investments intended for the operation of payment, operating, information and analytical and ICT systems in 2020 decreased by about half compared to 2019: from 7.69 billion rubles to 3.5 billion rubles. This follows from the annual report of the regulator, published in May 2021[1].

It also explains that the reduction in costs is associated with a decrease in the amount of work under the Bank of Russia's IT strategy, which was designed for the period 2016-2020, as well as with the postponement of work due to restrictive measures due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The reduction in costs under this item was both in the past and in the year before last. The Bank of Russia then explained this in the annual report by a decrease in the volume of work within the framework of the implementation of the IT strategy. Now a pandemic has been added to the causes.

Actual capital investments of the Bank of Russia to ensure the functioning of payment, operational, information and analytical and ICT systems
Period 2017 2018 2019 2020
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Source: TAdviser, Bank of Russia statements

Capital investments under the above item are aimed at creating a gateway for the exchange of payment and financial messages with clients of the Bank of Russia as part of the development of the fast payment system, the development of the Unified Data Storage application platform and the implementation of the Big Data segment.

They are also intended to create a system for ensuring information security (information security) of the Bank of Russia's private cloud, to develop automated systems for interacting with financial market participants, to maintain and develop existing information-computing and analytical systems and technical infrastructure, and to replace telecom equipment of divisions.

Part of the capital investments in 2020 went to the purchase of devices of the mobile access system for organizing remote work. It follows from the annual report that in terms of IT, the priority area of ​ ​ work was to ensure the technological possibility of implementing measures to support the structural divisions of the Bank of Russia aimed at overcoming the consequences of the pandemic.

In 2020, the decrease in capital expenditures of the Central Bank on IT turned out to be more than in 2018 and 2019. "(photo - Ekaterina Kuzmina/RBC)"

In the general structure of capital investments of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, 56.2% account for the functioning of payment, operating, information and analytical and ICT systems.

Almost a quarter of capital investments - 23.5% - are accounted for by ensuring the security of payment, operating, information and analytical, ICT systems and facility security. Under this item, expenses increased by 68 million rubles in 2020. The funds are aimed mainly at replacing the expired and technically outdated security and fire alarm systems, television security and surveillance systems, access control and control systems.

And part of the security expenses was spent on ensuring cryptographic protection of information in automated systems and software complexes of the Bank of Russia, the purchase of secure technical means of protecting information and computer equipment.

2019:32% cost reduction

In 2019, expenses for ensuring the functioning of payment, operating, information and analytical, information and telecommunication systems of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) amounted to about 7.7 billion rubles. This was reported in the annual report of the Bank of Russia, published in May 2020. The organization classifies these expenses as capital.

Actual expenses turned out to be slightly lower than planned: the approved amount of capital costs for informatization amounted to 8.7 billion rubles.

Compared to 2018, this item of expenses decreased by 32%. There was a reduction in costs under this item last year. As then, the decline in 2019 in the Bank of Russia is explained in the annual report by a decrease in the volume of work as part of the implementation of the IT strategy.

It also explains that these investments are aimed at creating the computing and telecommunication infrastructure of the Bank of Russia's private cloud, data center engineering systems. Some of the funds were intended for the development of a single platform for external interaction with market participants, the creation of personal account services.

This includes maintaining the functioning and development of existing information-computing and analytical systems and technical infrastructure, including the Bank of Russia's engineering systems, as well as replacing the computing infrastructure equipment of Bank of Russia divisions.

It follows from the annual report that among the central infrastructure projects of the Bank of Russia in 2019 was the completion of work on the creation of data centers in St. Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk.

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This made it possible to further consolidate the computing resources of the Bank of Russia and complete the second stage of creating a private "cloud" of the Bank of Russia, within the framework of which not only the volume of computing resources of the IT infrastructure has been expanded, but also the level of their fault tolerance and disaster tolerance has been increased, the Bank of Russia explains.
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In total, the Bank of Russia now has five own data centers, follows from the statements.

In order to optimize the Bank of Russia's satellite communication expenses, a new functionality of the organization's dedicated satellite communication network management system was created and introduced in 2019, which allows the dynamic provision of a satellite channel on demand only for the period when certain frequencies are in demand.

In 2019, new ones were created and current services of target platforms were developed. For personal accounts of financial market participants, appointment indicators were increased: the maximum volume of one message and the number of daily received and processed messages were increased.

A non-relational segment of a single data warehouse for processing and analytics of big data was also put into commercial operation . The Bank of Russia Payment System members were transferred to a centralized transport gateway. The organization says that this has significantly simplified interaction for financial market participants, including those with a distributed branch network.

Like most of the largest financial institutions, the Bank of Russia follows the path of increasing technical expertise within its organization. The annual report states that in 2019, the Bank of Russia continued to increase its internal competencies in the created regional IT hubs. How many IT hubs there are at the end of 2019, the report does not specify, as well as the number of their employees.

According to recruiting sites, for example, more than 250 people work in the IT hub in Tomsk. This regional center is the developer of the integration services platform, the main activity support platform, and applications on these platforms, explained in the archived vacancies.

The annual report states that the formation of development and support teams made it possible to create and develop 56% of targeted IT solutions with the Bank of Russia's own resources.

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At the same time, according to the IT strategy, an increase in the number of development specialists is carried out while reducing the number of operation employees by creating target platforms and reducing routine repetitive operations, the Bank of Russia explains.
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Most of the development is carried out using flexible methods - Agile, Scrum and continuous delivery tools for created IT solutions (CI/CD, DevOps).

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The trend towards the transfer to the internal development of key critical services and IT solutions in order to exclude dependence on external suppliers will be maintained for subsequent periods, the Bank of Russia says.
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2018: Cut IT capex by a quarter

In 2018, the costs of ensuring the functioning of payment, operating, information and analytical, information and telecommunication systems of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) amounted to 11.4 billion rubles, follows from the annual report of the organization. The bank classifies these expenses in the statements as capital investments.

At the same time, the actual expenses turned out to be about two times lower than planned: the approved amount of capital expenditures of this kind for 2018 amounted to 22.6 billion rubles.

Compared to 2017, capex on informatization decreased by almost 25%. This is due to a decrease in the volume of work within the framework of the implementation of the IT strategy of the Bank of Russia, the annual report says.

The IT strategy of the Bank of Russia, designed for the period up to 2020, is nearing completion "(photo - Bank of Russia)"

It involves the transformation of the IT landscape and the IT operating model, the creation of a new computing IT infrastructure.

One of the items of these expenses in 2019, the Bank of Russia calls the creation of a system for managing and visualizing the servers of the basic infrastructure of its private cloud. The report says that during the implementation of the first stage of the project to create a private cloud, a new IT infrastructure was built, which will allow providing computing resources according to the "infrastructure as a service" model, quickly scale and allocate computing power when creating centralized IT solutions of the Bank of Russia.

The funds also went to the creation of data center utilities; creating a backup payment module and a fast payment system; maintaining the functioning and development of the Bank of Russia's existing information-computing and analytical systems, the unified information support system, and the unified telecommunication banking network.

Some of the funds were spent on the modernization of the computing infrastructure of corporate and applied systems. One of the key projects of the Bank of Russia in the field of IT development in 2018 was the launch of a new own centralized payment system, within which customers were provided with payment services.

Work has also begun on the industrial implementation of big data processing and analysis tools and the development of analytical self-service services, the annual report said. In 2018, within the framework of this project, the Bank of Russia launched a pilot collection of information on the operating day of a group of credit institutions.

2017: IT capex doubled

Capital investments of the Central Bank (CBR) in the field of informatization in 2017 increased by 100.5%, to 11.091 billion rubles, follows from the annual report of the regulator published in the summer of 2018. The increase in capital costs for informatization in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is associated with the implementation of the IT strategy for 2016-2020, within the framework of which a number of large projects were carried out. Among them - work on the creation of the basic infrastructure of the private cloud of the Central Bank, engineering systems of data centers, a single data warehouse of a single information system for supporting the activities of the Central Bank.

The funds were also aimed at creating a transport gateway for a centralized system for exchanging payment and financial messages with clients of the Central Bank, developing a number of existing analytical systems and automated systems, modernizing the computing infrastructure, and a unified telecommunications banking network.

The Central Bank also attributed to capital costs for informatization to ensuring the security and protection of information, including the creation of an automated FINCERT system for the Central Bank.

The implementation of the IT strategy for 2016-2020 required an increase in the cost of informatization in the Central Bank "(photo - Regnum)"

The item of capital expenditures for informatization does not include all capital expenditures on ICT of the Central Bank. Separately, the article "Other capital costs" took into account the costs of acquiring the rights to use software products to create the target IT infrastructure of the Central Bank, for the development of the system and technical infrastructure of the information and telecommunication system. This also includes the cost of ensuring the functioning of the used automated systems and application complexes. Compared to 2016, these costs increased by almost 50%, to 2.71 billion rubles.

The costs ON are also contained in the item "Capital investments in intangible assets," the total growth of which amounted to 84%, to 1.53 billion rubles. The Central Bank in its annual report notes that the increase in costs under this item is associated with the acquisition and development of software products (intellectual property of the Central Bank) to ensure the functioning of application platforms created as part of the implementation of the strategy for 2016-2020.

Operating expenses of the Central Bank for the maintenance of computer equipment, for payment for the maintenance of software and information and computing services in 2017 remained at the same level compared to 2016 and amounted to 10.84 billion rubles.

Chronicle of IT development in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

2023

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has created a department of data, projects and processes for the development of artificial intelligence

At the end of December 2023, the Bank of Russia announced the abolition of the Data Management Department. Instead, the Department of Data, Projects and Processes will appear, which, among other things, will develop artificial intelligence technologies. Read more here.

Import substitution of the postal service for 40 million rubles

On January 23, 2023, it became known about the decision of the Bank of Russia to replace foreign corporate postal software with domestic one. The regulator is going to spend about 40 million rubles on this project.

As Kommersant writes with reference to the corresponding purchase at the Sberbank-AST site, the contractor will additionally need to test technical solutions for import substitution of the Central Bank's Unified Directory Service. The work will need to be completed in a year. As explained in the draft contract for the performance of work, thanks to the creation of such software, the regulator expects to reduce the sanctions risks for its infrastructure.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has begun import substitution of the postal service

The regulator has already implemented a replacement program in the field of teleconferencing, starting to use Rostelecom software, says Anna Avakimyan, chief analyst at RegBlok. Information about the costs of implementation in the department is not disclosed.

The use of foreign software carries many risks due to the lack of control over access to data, the possible revocation of licenses, a ban on updates, said Renat Lashin, executive director of ARPP Domestic Software. He said about the Central Bank project that the request indicated only the creation of a test bench, but not the acquisition of Russian solutions.

The source of the publication on the software market notes that "it will be very difficult to pass the qualification requirements of the tender, so many participants are unlikely to be recruited." Renat Lashin, in turn, claims that the country has several solutions that meet the requirements of the Central Bank - these are CommuniGate Pro, Mailion and VK products.

Managing Director of Oriole Capital Dmitry Alexandrov adds that the solutions already existing by January 2023 are certified by the FSB and FSTEC, and they will be relatively easy to adapt to the needs of the Central Bank.[2]

2021

Hackers stole about 0.5 billion rubles from correspondent accounts in the Central Bank

In December 2021, it became known that hackers from the MoneyTaker group conducted a successful attack on correspondent accounts at the Bank of Russia through the interbank transfer system of AWS CBD (automated workplace of a Bank of Russia client). This is stated in a new report by Group IB. Which bank was attacked and the amount of theft was not disclosed, but it was about 500 million rubles. The Bank of Russia confirmed that the regulator is aware of the incident.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation presented the main directions for the development of SupTech and RegTech technologies

On April 28, 2021, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation presented the main directions for the use of supervisory and regulatory technologies (SupTech and RegTech) until 2023. The updated roadmap is expected to enable the regulator and banks to more effectively perform their functions in these areas, as well as reduce costs, optimize and/or accelerate their own procedures and business processes.

As explained on the Central Bank website, SupTech (Supervisory Technology) is the technology used by regulators to improve the efficiency of control and supervision over the activities of financial market participants. RegTech (Regulatory Technology) - technologies used by financial institutions to improve the efficiency of compliance with the requirements of the regulator.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has published the main directions for the development of SupTech and RegTech technologies

The roadmap of the Central Bank indicates 42 projects that are either already in the process of implementation, or still require piloting or additional study. Among the technologies that will be involved in the implementation of the regulator's plan are artificial intelligence, cloud services, biometrics and data visualization technologies.

One of the initiatives mentioned in the document is the creation of a banking analytics tool on the Bank of Russia website. This "will allow obtaining information about the financial condition of banks in a form convenient for comparison, which will ensure greater market transparency: it will allow depositors and investors to effectively compare banks, as well as simplify the benchmarking process (comparative analysis of indicators with other indicators within the industry) of financial indicators for the banks themselves," according to the Central Bank.

The regulator also plans to introduce chat bots to answer questions from citizens and organizations, including those under supervision. In the future, it is planned to develop a chatbot to prevent financial crimes, reports of problems in loading reports, questions about the principles of proportional regulation and supervision, etc.[3]

2020: Central Bank uses artificial intelligence to search for market manipulation

The Bank of Russia is developing a self-learning algorithm that will automatically detect market manipulations and other deviations from the norm. This became known on October 9, 2020.

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It can take about an hour to determine the anomaly manually, and the algorithm does it within 15 minutes, "said Alexander Morozov, director of the Central Bank's research and forecasting department. He noted that the anomaly is a reason for the corresponding employee of the Bank of Russia to pay attention to it and determine what is behind it. "
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Morozov also noted that the Central Bank tried to analyze banking statistics using machine learning in order to predict "an approaching violation of the standards by one or another bank." In the future, the regulator plans to conduct a machine analysis of news about the bank and the companies it lends.

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Negative news will indicate an increase in risks and will be a reason for supervision to pay attention to this, - he explained[4]market.
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2019

Central Bank began to change Oracle to Russian DBMS

NTC Relex is negotiating with the Bank of Russia (Central Bank, Central Bank) on a contract for the supply of Linter DBMS for a number of its divisions in the regions, a source familiar with the details of the negotiations told TAdviser in December 2019. Read more here.

Central Bank decided to create a database of computers and smartphones to combat money laundering

In early December 2019, it became known about the plans of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to create a single database of computers and smartphones in order to track and suppress dubious cash transactions. The project aimed at combating money laundering was called the "Service for analyzing technical devices," Tatyana Zharkova, managing director of the Fintech Association (AFL), told RBC. Read more here.

Agreement with the Moscow City Department on competitive policy in the field of procurement

On September 20, 2019, the Moscow Department of Competition Policy announced that it had signed an agreement on cooperation between the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

The parties will interact on the development of information cooperation in the field of procurement necessary to ensure the functioning of the system. Bank Russia More. here

2018: Central Bank to replace 6,500 employees with robots

At the end of October 2018, it became known about the planned layoffs of 6,500 people at the Central Bank in connection with the ongoing robotization of working processes at the regulator.

On the sidelines of the conference of suppliers of the Central Bank, Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Ruslan Vesterovsky told reporters that by the end of 2019 it is planned to reduce the number of personnel in the Central Bank - from 50 to 43.5 thousand, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

At the end of October 2018, it became known about the planned layoffs of 6,500 people at the Central Bank in connection with the ongoing robotization of working processes at the regulator
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In general, the bank is now conducting a large reengineering. From the point of view of business processes, we look at which IT component is added there, what regulatory regulation, we overestimate the number that we will have, - said Ruslan Vesterovsky (quoted by RIA Novosti), adding that at some point the Central Bank staff reached about 100 thousand people.
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According to him, the reason for the reduction of workers will be the ongoing robotization of the Central Bank's workflow. Consolidation and robotization have a tremendous effect.

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For example, in the direction of personnel workflow, we had about 400 people throughout the country. Now in Ufa we are launching a hub that will close all personnel issues and which employs 120 people. Automation will further enhance the effect, - said the representative of the regulator.
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In February 2018, the Central Bank issued a report in which the banking regulator called robotization one of the most promising financial technologies. The Central Bank also ranked mobile technologies, artificial intelligence, cloud technologies and biometrics among such technologies.[5]

At the end of October 2018, Dmitry Peskov, Special Representative of the President of Russia for Digital and Technological Development, said that large-scale robotization would begin in Russia only after 2022, "because there are still a number of technological problems in order to make real robots on the conveyor that replace humans."

2017

Central Bank begins choosing Russian OS and DBMS to replace imported

The Central Bank (Central Bank) has created and operates a Commission to ensure import substitution in the information and telecommunication system of the Central Bank. Information about this appeared on the website of the Central Bank in November 2017. The Commission, among other things, organizes the analysis of incoming initiatives for the use of domestic software.

The main areas for consideration are operating systems (for the x86-64 platform) and DBMS (high-performance relational DBMSs of the enterprise scale), the regulator said in a statement.

The Central Bank begins the selection of IT solutions for import substitution "(photo - TV Center)"

The Central Bank accepts initiatives for consideration in the form of letters with attached presentation materials addressed to the Director of the Information Technology Department.

After talking with market participants, TAdviser found out that some market players are already interacting with the commission as of November. Postgres Professional told TAdviser that they are aware of the creation of a commission in the Central Bank and have applied for participation.

Not all players chose to speak openly about contacts with the new Central Bank commission. But from communication with them, TAdviser became known that one of the domestic developers of operating systems also conducts interaction with the commission through partners.

All key IT posts in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation were occupied by women

In July 2017, Alisa Melnikova, who previously headed Sberbank-Technologies for four years, was appointed Director of the Department of Financial Technologies, Projects and Process Organization of the Bank of Russia.

Director of the Financial Technologies Department of the Central Bank Alisa Melnikova

The department is engaged in the study of promising financial technologies (in particular, blockchain) and the development of proposals for their application. As the head of the department, Melnikov replaced Vadim Kalukhov, who resigned in May 2017.

In October 2017, the acting Director of the Information Technology Department of the Central Bank became Zulfiya Kakhrumanova. Prior to that, since 2015, she headed the development center as part of the IT department, and previously led IT projects at Rosbank and the development of the corporate information system of the Siberian Generating Company.

And about. Director of the IT Department of the Central Bank Zulfiya Kakhrumanova

Kakhrumanova was replaced as head of the IT department by Maxim Tishchenko, who has held this post since 2014.

Both departments - both financial technologies and information technologies - are subordinate to the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova.

First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova

Another department accountable to Skorobogatova is engaged in the national payment system. Since October 2014, it has been headed by Alla Bakina, who replaced Timur Batyrev in this post.

Alla Bakina, Director of the National Payment System Department

Thus, women occupied key posts of the technological wing of the Central Bank, which can be considered best practice.

Bank of Russia IT Division Management Structure as of October 2017

Gender balance in an organization is thought to be a key to its productivity and creativity. This thesis is guided by an increasing number of global corporations that are undergoing a difficult transformation process today. Embedded in the new digital reality, they are changing approaches not only to technology, but also to corporate culture. The new HR policy increasingly sets the task of leveling the number of men and women in teams (for more details, see the TAdviser review on the role of women in IT).

Purchase of Microsoft licenses for 3.5 billion rubles

In February 2017, the Bank of Russia announced the purchase of licenses for Microsoft software products for 3.5 billion rubles (more).

2016

2016-2020 IT Strategy

In February 2017, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation presented a strategy for the development of its IT system until 2020. The regulator plans to consolidate disparate IT solutions on single platforms, optimize infrastructure, implement cyber resilience tools, etc.

The fact that the IT infrastructure of the Bank of Russia will be radically changed was told at the forum "Information Security of the Financial Sphere" by Maxim Tishchenko, Director of the Information Technology Department of the Central Bank. According to him, the purpose of the transformation is to ensure the ability of the regulator to flexibly respond to any changes in the technological environment within the framework of modern trends while maintaining the reliability and stability of the system.

The reform is planned to be carried out in four main areas: the creation of a targeted IT landscape, the creation of an effective data management system (including Big Data), infrastructure optimization and the integration of cybersecurity tools . The first direction involves the transition from disparate IT solutions to nine application platforms.

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We now have 375 decentralized applications, more than 3 thousand installations of these applications, - said Maxim Tishchenko. - After switching to key platforms that will completely close all functionality, there will be a very small number of specialized applications that we cannot influence and somehow change them
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The target IT landscape will be based on an external interaction platform, which is a unified channel of communication with external counterparties, providing electronic document management, the work of personal accounts, an external site. This channel will handle big data, including unstructured data.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, in the second quarter of 2017, the Central Bank planned to form a new structure - a data management group, and operational units - to greatly reduce.[6]

Transition to EDM

On February 11, 2016, the Central Bank announced the transition to a legally significant electronic document flow with controlled financial organizations from May 10, 2016 (more).

2015: IT transformation in the Central Bank: the main directions

The presentation of the Bank of Russia, published in March 2015, outlined the main directions of the IT transformation that the financial regulator plans to implement. It follows that the transformation is carried out in three main areas: IT management in the bank, IT development and IT support.

Regarding the first point, the Central Bank planned to centralize and unify its IT organizational structure, implement project management, relationship management with functional customers, optimize IT budget management processes, and introduce an IT risk management system.

Target structure of the IT department at the Central Bank

In terms of IT development, competence centers for the development of IT solutions were to be created, a targeted IT architecture was developed, IT solutions were centralized and unified, and the life cycle of IT solutions development was optimized.

In terms of maintenance, it was planned to implement a unified incident monitoring and management system, centralize and unify infrastructure solutions, and implement centralized IT processes.

The need for IT transformation at the Bank of Russia was explained by the need to meet changing reality conditions, such as expanding the perimeter of the Bank of Russia's responsibility as a "mega-regulator," the emergence of new types of risks in the Russian and international financial spheres, as well as "new challenges from the market in terms of the development of new technologies and services.

The main priorities for IT within the framework of transformation plans at the Bank of Russia were to increase the speed and quality of implementation of projects with an IT component, ensure the reliability and continuity of IT systems, improve the quality of IT services in terms of compliance with customer requirements and expectations and increase the level of control over the use of funds for the development and operation of IT systems.

2014: Skorobogatova replaces Luntovsky as curator of the IT block

In July 2014, Olga Skorobogatova left Rosbank and joined the Central Bank of the Russian Federation as deputy chairman. In a new place, she became responsible for settlements, information technologies and the development of payment systems, replacing Georgy Luntovsky in this role.

In September 2014, the informatization department was headed by Maxim Tishchenko, who previously worked as deputy director of this department.

2013: Luntovsky succeeds Senatorov as IT curator

At the end of June 2013, the chairman of the board was replaced at the Central Bank. It was Elvira Nabiullina, who began to form her own team.

Mikhail Senatorov, deputy chairman of the Central Bank, who was responsible for IT, left his post. The technological divisions of the Bank of Russia were reassigned to First Deputy Chairman Georgy Luntovsky. This followed from the new management structure of the bank, published on its website. Senators moved to Gazprom to the post of IT adviser.

The IT structure of the Central Bank includes the following divisions:

  • Department of Informatization and Telecommunications of the Central Bank (headed by Andrey Karshin)

  • Main Directorate of Security and Information Protection (GUBZI) (Oleg Krylov). This division on individual issues reported directly to the chairman of the bank.

If Alekhine and Krylov headed their structures for a long time, then the Karshin department was created in 2013 instead of the abolished Department of Information Systems (DIS). According to CNews, Sergey Nagibin, who headed it, left the Central Bank. Also, most of the heads of departments of the old structure were dismissed from the bank. Karshin, before his new appointment, was Krylov's deputy at GUBZI.

In addition to these divisions, the structure of the Central Bank included:

  • Nudol Technological Center, headed by Anatoly Shiryaev (document repository, including electronic, and replacement equipment holder);

  • Interregional Center for Informatization (MCI) under the leadership of Mikhail Shashlov (ensures the operation of the bank's payment system, connecting customers to electronic exchange, etc.)

The heads of these divisions have also long held their positions.

The goal of 2013 is to centralize IT, namely the transition to a single payment system (in 2004 there were 10 such systems, in 2007 there were three), a decrease in the number of computing centers of the bank's main management and an increase in the load of existing equipment. The Bank of Russia payment system serves interbank settlements, namely bank electronic term payments (BESP), intraregional and interregional settlement systems and other payment mechanisms.

With the arrival of Nabiullina, in addition to Mikhail Senatorov, who oversaw informatization, the bank left, for example, Deputy Chairman Viktor Melnikov, who oversaw the fight against money laundering, and became Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev.

2012:440 thousand hardware and software for 90 billion rubles

In 2012, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Mikhail Senatorov described the information and telecommunication system (ITS) of the Bank of Russia as covering all divisions throughout the country and totaling 440 thousand hardware and software in the amount of almost 90 billion rubles.

The total number of servers was 14.4 thousand. The bank processed from 8 to 12 million transactions every day. The total number of ITS users is about 60 thousand in the organization itself and about 5 thousand external clients[7].

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