The
overgrowing business relationship between China and Tanzania has opened new
prospects as CRDB Bank's ATMs would start accepting China UnionPay (CUP) cards.
The
CRDB Managing Director, Dr Charles Kimei, said holders of the CUP cards issued
by banks in China or elsewhere would be able to use balances in their
respective bank accounts at CRDB's ATM, points of sale (PoS) and counters.
"We (CRDB) are going to launch the same within (this) months," Dr
Kimei said.
The
bank attributed the introduction of the CUP to the Chinese community in the
country which is a special segment amongst CRDB's customers.
"More
important," Dr Kimei said, "the Chinese community in Tanzania-which
we forecast to grow as our relations grow stronger-need financial intermediation".
On
top of that, the Managing Director of one of leading bank said "all what
is happening in the real economy needs to be supported by the financial
system". CRDB has 90 branches, 250 ATMs 13 mobile branches and several PoS
terminals.
According
to the Wikipedia CUP is the only domestic bank card organization in China which
is accepted on 1.2million ATMs worldwide and used in 105 countries and regions
around the world.
Since 2006, CUP UnionPay are used in over 100 countries
outside China. The card was founded in March 2002 and is an association for
China's banking card industry, operating under the approval of the People's
Bank of China.
Source: The Daily News, www.dailynews.co.tz reported by Abduel Elinaza in Dar es Salaam
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