It is reported that Russian travellers are massively withdrawing hard cash from playing cards operated by the Chinese payment program UnionPay. It stays the only big worldwide system in Russia considering the fact that Visa, American Express, and Mastercard commenced the invasion of Ukraine.
Not long ago, in Finland, they have begun to see that it is UnionPay playing cards that Russians use to withdraw money and shell out for buys at the jap border.
According to the regional supervisor of the Nokas nosto corporation, which provides ATM solutions, hard cash withdrawals started at a document speed just after Finland opened the border to the Russians.
Note that the Chinese UnionPay system has been operating in Finland for a number of a long time.
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