The major Russian banks have agreed to label their calls. Operators threatened them with blocking calls.
The four major telecom operators (MTS, Beeline, Megaphone and T2) and the major banks agreed on the conditions for tagging calls and entered into parallel agreements, the Russian Ministry of Digital Development reported.
The Ministry of Digital Development claims that in the near future all calls from these banks will be flagged. It is not specified which banks we are talking about, but it was previously reported that Alfa Bank, VTB, Sberbank, T-Bank and others did not enter into agreements with operators.
The marking is supposed to help subscribers "identify calls and reduce the risk of deception by criminals posing as employees of financial institutions."
Starting September 1, 2025, operators must tag calls from companies as part of the fight against fraudsters. The operators claimed that more than 90% of the companies in the banking market and "almost 100%" of the other companies have already entered into marking agreements, and the big banks avoid making agreements or have concluded but do not fulfill them.
Operators have warned that starting October 15, 2026, they will start blocking calls from the largest Russian banks.