{"id":6751,"date":"2017-09-05T08:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T08:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2017-11-09T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:47:34","slug":"ardshinbank-issues-first-in-armenia-arca-mir-payment-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/ardshinbank-issues-first-in-armenia-arca-mir-payment-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardshinbank issues first-in-Armenia ArCa-MIR payment card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ardshinbank has become the first in Armenia to begin issuing the ArCa-MIR chip payment cards, which are \u00a0serviced in both Armenia and Russia. The main purpose the joint cards is to provide citizens of both countries with even more high-quality services, the development of non-cash payments and the expansion of national payment system card transactions.<\/p>\n<p>On July 7, 2017, the Central Bank of Armenia included the Russian national system (MIR) into the register of active payment and settlement systems in Armenia and also gave permission for Armenia\u2019s card payment and settlement organization to participate in the MIR system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-6751 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor (22th May \u2013 8th June)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-22th-may-8th-june\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bce920e0-5434-6a03-e80b-18005b578c221-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-16081\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-16081'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor (22th May \u2013 8th June)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor (24th March \u2014 2nd\u00a0April)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-24th-31st-march\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/24b9f85b-1208-4607-add6-ecff88b4fb0e1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15941\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15941'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor (24th March \u2014 2nd\u00a0April)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Kenyan group in talks with Ethiopian banks on mobile payments'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/kenyan-group-in-talks-with-ethiopian-banks-on-mobile-payments\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kenyan-group-in-talks-with-ethiopian-banks-on-mobile-payments-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10828\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10828'>\n\t\t\t\tKenyan group in talks with Ethiopian banks on mobile payments\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ardshinbank has become the first in Armenia to begin issuing the ArCa-MIR chip payment cards, which are \u00a0serviced in both Armenia and Russia. The main purpose the joint cards is to provide citizens of both countries with even more high-quality services, the development of non-cash payments and the expansion of national payment system card transactions. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}