{"id":40973,"date":"2012-09-03T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/09\/03\/236314\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:59:21","slug":"areximbank-gazprombank-group-begins-issuing-mastercards-with-chip-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/09\/03\/40973\/","title":{"rendered":"Areximbank-Gazprombank Group begins issuing  MasterCards with chip modules."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 3. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Areximbank-Gazprombank Group said today it began issuing MasterCard payment cards with chip modules. A plastic card with a chip-module  is a payment card with a built-in microprocessor. Its functionality is much higher than of magnetic stripe cards. It allows storing a larger amount of data and offer also a higher security level.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Bank\u2019s press release, it will issue chip cards of all types without additional fees. In the near future, the Bank will start issuing  also chip cards of Visa international payment system.<\/p>\n<p>As of August 1 Areximbank-Gazprombank Group issued 101,416 cards, including 18,604 MasterCards, 80,384  Visa and 2,428  ArCa cards. The bank operates 70 ATMs  and 246 POS.<br \/>\nAreximbank-Gazprombank Group (formerly Areximbank, renamed on June 12, 2009) was established in August 1998 for supporting entrepreneurship and serving financial flows between Russia and Armenia. Russia\u2019s Gazprombank has been the sole owner of the bank since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Areximbank \u2013 Gazprombank Group is a member of VISA International and MasterCard International payment systems as well as ArCa local payment system.  ($1 \u2013 408,63 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Areximbank-Gazprombank Group said today it began issuing MasterCard payment cards with chip modules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[12761,15837,15518,792],"class_list":{"0":"post-40973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-areximbank-gazprobank-group","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-mastercard-3","11":"tag-792"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}