{"id":83026,"date":"2014-12-22T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2014\/12\/22\/242116\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:15:31","slug":"areximbank-gazprombank-group-starts-issuing-visapaywave-proximity-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2014\/12\/22\/83026\/","title":{"rendered":"Areximbank \u2013 Gazprombank group starts issuing visapaywave proximity cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 22. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Areximbank \u2013 Gazprombank Group CJSC started issuing and serving proximity cards with VisapayWave technology, the press office of the bank reported on Monday.<br \/>\nAreximbank \u2013 Gazprombank Group is the first organization in Armenia to issue and serve such a kind of plastic cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisapayWave is a unique technology that allows cardholders to make instant payments in all the trade centers equipped with proximity devises,\u201d the press release says.<\/p>\n<p>There is no need to insert the card in the payment terminal, sign a check or dial a pin code for paying less than 10,000 drams. It is necessary just to set the card to the devise near the cash registers and the payment will be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>All the VisapayWave proximity cards, regardless of which bank or country has issued them, will be accepted by Areximbank \u2013 Gazprombank Group\u2019s proximity terminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisapayWave technology is based on usage of EMV international standards for chip cards,\u201d the bank says in its press release. \u201cIt ensures functional compatibility between cards and payment terminals all over the world, i.e. in 50 countries, including Armenia&#8217;s closest partners \u2013 Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine and Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, the bank&#8217;s 12 payment terminals accepting VisapayWave cards are already available in trade centers in Yerevan and the same number is planned to be added to them by spring 2015.<br \/>\nAreximbank-Gazprombank Group was established in August 1998. In 2007, it became a subsidiary of Russia\u2019s biggest bank, Gazprombank.<\/p>\n<p>The bank&#8217;s assets totaled AMD 130 billion and liabilities AMD 109.6 billion in early October 2014. Its loan portfolio amounted to AMD 75 billion and capital to AMD 20.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter of this year the bank sustained losses totaling AMD 941.2 million against AMD 413 million in the same quarter a year before. ($1 \u2013 AMD 455.75). &#8211;0&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Areximbank \u2013 Gazprombank Group CJSC started issuing and serving proximity cards with VisapayWave technology, the press office of the bank reported on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[12640,15837,12604],"class_list":{"0":"post-83026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-areximbank-gazprombank-group","10":"tag-armenia-2","11":"tag-card"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83026","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=83026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}