OREANDA-NEWS. Russia's Golden Crown payment system expects to receive a status of a nationally important payment system in January-March 2015, CEO Nikolai Smirnov told reporters at a forum.

"We will soon submit documents. We will register until the end of the 2015's first quarter," Smirnov said.

On October 31, the central bank gave status of nationally important systems to Sberbank's Universal Electronic Card (UEC), Customs Card, Multiservisnaya Platezhnaya Sistema, VTB's payment system, National Credit Cards, Union Card, HandyBank and Blizko.