Kazakhstan-based Temirbank to issue MasterCard payment cards

/KASE, February 8, 10/ - BTA Bank's subsidiary - Temirbank (Almaty), listing on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), provided KASE with a press release dated February 8, 2010: Quotation begins February 8, 2010 Temirbank is launching microprocessor MasterCard International payment cards. Thereby Temirbank is extending its product line and along with VISA payment cards, is offering the following payment cards: Maestro, MasterCard Standard, MasterCard Gold and MasterCard Business. With Temirbank's MasterCards, you can: - pay for goods and services in over 25 million trade and service points worldwide, including in the Internet; - receive cash in over 1 million ATMs in 210 countries worldwide. Payment cards MasterCard are issued within "TemirCard" and "TemirCard Light" products, which is allowing clients to receive remuneration on remains up to 11.6%* APR. Clients may remotely and on the round-the-clock basis manage their finance, through use of electric banking services (Internet-banking, Mobile banking and SMS). For convenience Temirbank is advising to register two payment cards - VISA and MasterCard. * annual effective rate computed on the basis of FSA's methodology Press Service, 2587889 (ext 5335) Ends [2010-02-08]