Two more Kyrgyz banks "Kapital Bank" and "Demir-Bank" suspended the service of Russian Mir cards, thus half of the country's banks have already announced the termination of work with this payment system, RIA Novosti reports.
"Dear clients, acceptance and servicing of NSPK Mir cards (National Payment Card System) in ATMs and POS-terminals of Kapital Bank, as well as money transfers from client to client within the framework of NSPK to payment cards issued by Kapital Bank OJSC are suspended. "We apologize for any inconvenience," the message posted on the Kapital Bank website says.
Demir-Bank also told journalists that they were temporarily suspending the service of Mir cards. Financial institutions do not inform about the reasons for such a decision.
Earlier in Kyrgyzstan, eight commercial banks announced the suspension of servicing Russian Mir cards - Kyrgyzstan, Bakai-bank, Doskredobank, Companion, Bank of Asia, KICB, Bai-Tushum, Optima- Bank" - and one state bank "Aiyl-Bank". In total, according to the latest data, there are 22 banks in the republic. The National Bank (central bank) of Kyrgyzstan has previously stated that it does not interfere in the work of the banks of the republic in the issue of servicing Mir payment cards.
After the US Treasury announced its readiness to impose sanctions for working with the Mir payment system, problems with the use of Russian cards arose in many countries, including Turkey, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Since September 23, the unified republican processing center Uzcard has suspended accepting cards of the Russian payment system "Mir" in Uzbekistan, including co-badged ones abroad, for technical reasons.
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Nov. 7, 2022