According to online reports, the Russian Central Bank announced that First Deputy Governor Olga Skorobogatova will resign on December 2. She worked in the private sector until joining the central bank in 2014. Skorobogatova oversees the national payment system, IT and financial technology, including the Digital Ruble Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Her position will be replaced by Zulfiya Kakhrumanova, the central bank's IT director. First Deputy Governor Dmitry Tulin will be responsible for overseeing the national payment system. The digital ruble is planned to be launched on a large scale in July 2025, when large banks will be obligated to support CBDC. The second batch of banks originally planned to join the program in January 2024, but it had not yet realized by October.