{"id":13277,"date":"2019-07-09T20:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13277"},"modified":"2019-07-09T20:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:38:52","slug":"uzbek-startup-marta-wins-special-award-at-visa-everywhere-initiative-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/uzbek-startup-marta-wins-special-award-at-visa-everywhere-initiative-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbek startup MARTA wins special award at Visa Everywhere Initiative competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants at the Visa Everywhere Initiative competition presented their innovative solutions designed to help solve local market challenges and create new products and services in the field of financial technologies. At the finals of the competition, Uzbek startup MARTA won a special award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MARTA is a mobile app that allows small businesses to accept payments from UnionPay, Visa and MasterCard. MARTA began development more than 6 months ago and has already passed its initial testing stage. MARTA\u2019s developers are now awaiting investors to help it become certified with Visa and other financial institutions. 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At the finals of the competition, Uzbek startup MARTA won a special award. MARTA is a mobile app that allows small businesses to accept payments &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[70,141,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13278,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions\/13278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}