In the payment system of Russia has failed
In the National system of payment cards (nvqs) had a solid failure. According to the followers of the banks, during the night operations for MasterCard and Visa were not serviced for 5 hours.

In the National system of payment cards (nvqs) had a solid failure. According to the followers of the banks, during the night operations for MasterCard and Visa were not serviced for 5 hours.
"The system is not operated for 5 hours with 2:15 to 7:10 am, card transactions through it was not conducted", - quotes RBC Bank employee from the top 20. According to reliable information the publication, the issue concerned the relationship channels and authorization. Clarification of the situation from the authorities of the NPCs has not yet been reported.
"We had to use mihotave connection, not to stop operations on the cards, the market was up all night, NPCs in an extremely long time to solve the problem. Got lucky that night operations are not so much, if the day had been such a failure would collapse" convince the adherents of the banks.
Recall that from 1 April in Russia earned its own system for processing credit card payments, which should connect all the banks. NPCs should ensure payments within Russia regardless of the decisions of foreign countries. At this point all operations on MasterCard go through this system, Visa is not yet fully completed the transition. Also, the transition to the NPCs managed to make a few banks.
As we are told in 1 solid malfunction of the NPCs. Previously, banks echoed concerns that possible faults in consequence of the rapid start system. At the end of March some banks warned own visitors about possible disruptions associated with the transfer of payment traffic to a new payment system. The Russians then recommended to have on hand a small supply of cash.
JSC "national system of payment cards" was created in 2014 after a number of domestic banks fallen under the American sanctions. International payment systems Visa and MasterCard offer the United States, finished servicing cards issued by these banks.