Sources

SRC-830

Central Bank of Syria, news item 'بعد توقف لأكثر من 15 عاماً.. حاكم مصرف سورية المركزي ينفذ أول عملية دفع إلكترونية دولية عبر بطاقة Mastercard' (after a stop of more than fifteen years, the governor of the Central Bank of Syria carries out the first international electronic payment by Mastercard card), cat_id 2192, dated 30 August 2026 on the bank's news list

Source ID
SRC-830
Citation
Central Bank of Syria, news item 'بعد توقف لأكثر من 15 عاماً.. حاكم مصرف سورية المركزي ينفذ أول عملية دفع إلكترونية دولية عبر بطاقة Mastercard' (after a stop of more than fifteen years, the governor of the Central Bank of Syria carries out the first international electronic payment by Mastercard card), cat_id 2192, dated 30 August 2026 on the bank's news list
URL or path
https://cb.gov.sy/index.php?page=show&ex=2&dir=items&lang=1&ser=3&cat_id=2192 ; research/CLOSING2_STATUS_2026-10-18/sanctions/cbs_news_2192.html ; the date from research/CLOSING2_STATUS_2026-10-18/sanctions/cbs_news_list_2026-10-18.html
Type
Central bank statement
Hierarchy tier
2
Published
2026-08-30
Accessed
2026-10-18
Snapshot
Fetched 18 October 2026 19:41:29 UTC by the STATUS limb (sanctions/FETCH_LOG.tsv); the item page carries no date of its own, and the news list fetched 19:36:18 UTC lists it at 2026-08-30
Claims
CH6 l.99, l.101, l.103 and l.5 (v98): the Central Bank dates actual operation of international card acceptance to its governor's first payment, in an item its news list dates 30 August 2026; Chapter 6 v99 l.5; CH8 l.251 (v78); CARD-001
Status
READ

Version history

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  1. READ WHOLE 18 October 2026. Body: 'نفذ حاكم مصرف سورية المركزي، السيد صفوت رسلان، أول عملية دفع فعلية باستخدام بطاقة Mastercard، وذلك بعد استكمال الإجراءات الفنية اللازمة لإعادة ربط منظومة الدفع السورية بالشبكة العالمية' and 'بالتعاون بين مصرف سورية المركزي ومجموعة QNB سورية وشركة Mastercard، من خلال عملية شراء لدى أحد المتاجر المحلية باستخدام البطاقة، بما يمثل انتقالاً من مرحلة الجاهزية والاختبارات الفنية إلى التشغيل الفعلي لخدمة قبول المدفوعات الدولية'. The item does not mention May. WHAT IT MAY NOT SUPPORT: that the May reports (SRC-189, SRC-190) were wrong, or that the two date the same thing; whose card was used (a Syrian-issued or a foreign one) the item does not say. Related, not printed: item 2200, listed 14 September 2026, the launch of the first locally issued card accepted internationally (QNB Syria with Mastercard) and Decision No. 259 as the framework (cbs_news_2200.html). Found by the STATUS limb as MISSED before the window (STATUS 3.10).