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Areximbank-Gazprombank Group first to use Visa payWave contactless cards

YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/.  Areximbank-Gazprombank Group closed joint stock company has become the first Armenian bank to accept and issue contactless Visa payWave plastic cards, the bank’s press office reported.

Visa payWave is an almost instantaneous payment technology that requires customers to simply wave their card in front of the reader. No pincode is required for payments of up to 10,000 drams.

The technology is currently available only in some 23 sales centers in the Armenian capital, but the number will be increased in future, the press office of the bank said.

Areximbank – Gazprombank Group was founded in 1998. The bank is a 100 percent subsidiary of Russian Gazprombank. –0–

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