Russia’s Central Bank Plans to Subsidize Commercial Banks for Promoting Digital Ruble Payroll Disbursements

TechFlow News, June 25: According to bits.media, the Central Bank of Russia announced that, effective January 1, 2027, it will provide economic incentives to commercial banks for disbursing salaries to corporate clients via the digital ruble platform—67 kopecks per executed instruction, with a minimum reward of 10 rubles per instruction list. Meanwhile, the Central Bank’s Board of Directors approved the fee schedule for users of the digital ruble platform: enterprises transferring funds to individuals will incur a fee of 1 ruble per instruction, with a minimum fee of 15 rubles per instruction list. Prior to this, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina stated that the digital ruble is primarily intended for state oversight of government contract expenditures and emphasized that the use of the digital ruble by the general public is not mandatory.