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  • China’s UnionPay to follow US sanctions and block Russian banks

    China’s UnionPay to follow US sanctions and block Russian banks

    Russia planned to start issuing UnionPay cards after Visa and Mastercard disconnected its banking sector, rendering Russian-issued debit and credit cards useless outside the country. UnionPay is unwilling to cooperate with a number of large Russian banks because of the risk of secondary sanctions, RBC learned. Sanctioned banks that issued such cards or planned to […]