alt Hacker NewsNot in Russia, payments made with a Visa card do not go through Visa any longer, at all. You can even use expired Visa cards (with most banks).
Not in Russia, payments made with a Visa card do not go through Visa any longer, at all. You can even use expired Visa cards (with most banks).
yes,
but also this means that major security features don't work anymore creating a higher risk for the bank
and Russia prepared for this for years after the sanctions related to the annexation of Crimea
and Russia kinda,nearly cut fully ties for the US
and it still hurt them quite a bit anyway
so such thing would be more like a last resort emergency solution then the "getting less dependent on while not cutting all ties" situations we currently have