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Yulia Pchelintseva, Business Development Director at Softline Digital, recalled that the course for import substitution in the banking industry was taken a long time ago, and the state played an important role in this. "Of course, since February 2022, the substitution of foreign software and equipment has been forced to happen much more intensively. There are Russian vendors that have already proven themselves well, including in the banking industry. New products are also appearing, which are being tested and implemented by banks at an accelerated rate. The level of trust in Russian developments is growing italy cell phone number list both on the part of businesses and citizens," she confirmed. "The trend will obviously continue in the near future."

, which conducted the survey, does not ask Russians whether their smartphones and smart card chips are domestic or whether Russians believe that bank data centers should operate on domestic servers. Even if conscientious citizens answer that all this is useful and absolutely necessary, it is clear that this will take a lot of time. Banks, like enterprises in other industries, would certainly like to go back a year and, following Doctor Faust, exclaim: "Stop the moment, you are beautiful!" - even if Mephistopheles came to demand the execution of the contract. It turned out that Mephistopheles came to take the soul to hell, and the moment is not at all beautiful. Foreign software will not update itself, and Russian integrators cannot wait forever for vendors to be allowed to renew contracts - they need business models, and they see them in domestic development. So, if the old Western suppliers will return, and it will be necessary to learn how to implement new versions of their solutions again. Therefore, banks will trust Russian software, especially since the banking and financial sector has traditionally spent the most on IT and had its own development departments, and is also less afraid of Russian software than others."