Personal accounts of financial market participants to transfer to new portal
The Bank of Russia has completed the gradual migration of the personal accounts of information exchange participants from the External Portal of the Unified System for Information Exchange with External Subscribers of the Bank of Russia to the External Portal of the Unified Platform for External Interaction.
As of 18 February 2019, all information exchange via the old portal has been ceased; it is now functioning in archive mode only (users can access their activity log).
The new portal will boost the quality of information exchange between the Bank of Russia and financial market participants. The new platform is more stable and offers a greater storage capacity for the electronic message exchange log. Moreover, users will be able to use ‘system-to-system’ communication with the REST service (the specifications are available in the following section: Instructions and other information about the technology for the preparation and submission of electronic documents to the Bank of Russia).
The Bank of Russia has also activated personal accounts of credit institutions’ branches to establish their interaction with the regulator's regional establishments. Due to the fact that large credit institutions with an extended branch network need more time to conduct the required organisational and technical measures, the information exchange through the new portal is scheduled for launch on 1 March 2019.
Therefore, starting from 1 March 2019, all credit institutions will have the option of choosing one of the following ways of interacting with the Bank of Russia:
- By providing their branches with access (login and password) to branches’ personal accounts, adding the necessary enhanced qualified electronic signature certificate to the profile;
- By providing only the employees of the parent credit institution access to personal accounts of all their branches, adding the parent institution’s enhanced qualified electronic signature certificate to the profile.
At the same time, in order to decrease the workload of employees at credit institutions with an extended branch network who have to monitor a large number of personal accounts, the regulator recommends using the REST service that makes it possible to interact with the Bank of Russia (e.g., receive messages) directly through the electronic document workflow system.