Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC plans to help Temirbank OJSC to enter VISA International payment system

/IRBIS, Apr 9, 02/ - Nearest time Halyk bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) plans to help technically and financially Temribank OJSC to enter VISA International payment system as an Associate Member. It is said in a press release of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC distributed today. It is informed in the press release that processing center of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC founded on the basis of card center was built on the basis of products BW# of Open Way company and Base 24 of companyACI. Currently card center of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC serves more than 850 th. cards of the bank (standards Altyn, international cards Euro/MasterCard, VISA and Cirrus/Maestro), cards of AMB OJSC (Almaty), NURBANK OJSC (Atyrau), Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty). As of April 1,2002 the card system of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC is the largest in Kazakhstan that includes more than 850 th. payment cards (70% of all issued cards in the republic), 365 cash dispensers (65% of the market), 568 (50% of the market) subjects accepting payment cards. In the press release it is also informed that in the year 2001 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC supported financially NEFTEBANK OJSC (Aktau) and Eurasian bank CJSC at entering international payment system VISA [2002-04-09]