OREANDA-NEWS. April 29, 2013. Sviaz-Bank has put into service an electronic system to exchange documents with the State Information System for State and Municipal Payments (GIS GMP). The system permits advices of customers’ instructions to the Bank to make payments for government and municipal services and other payments to the federal budget to be forwarded immediately to GIS GMP.

From this date on, Sviaz-Bank’s customers will no longer be required to confirm payments they make to the budgetary system because all information about their payments will be transmitted instantly to GIS GMP.

GIS GMP is a centralized system receiving, recording, and transferring information between its members, in particular, budget revenue administrators, payment transfer institutions, portals, and multifunctional centers.

The project was initiated to comply with the requirements of Federal Law No.210-FZ, Provision of Government and Municipal Services, of June 27, 2010. Sviaz-Bank is in the first wave of Russian banks to have complied with the law.

In the near term, the Bank plans to launch a service to provide its customers with information about all their outstanding arrears in payments to the federal budget. A customer asking the Bank for information about all charges on him still unpaid and arrears due from him to the budget, will be provided with it in a way he prefers – at the Bank office or through the Megapay Internet banking system – and make the payment to the budgetary system.

“We believe that information about payments made being forwarded immediately to GIS GMP will allow our customers to receive government and municipal services promptly without producing documents confirming their payments, and the service we plan to launch to inform our customers about charges on them will reduce the risks of customers piling up arrears in payments to the budgetary system, for example, in taxes, fines, and duties,” says Alexei Samoilov, Director of Sviaz-Bank’s Project Technology Department.