News of Payment Systems

• Banks of Armenia: the number of active cards has grown by 26.4%

News of Banks

• Sberbank of Russia opens in Moscow first offices of a new format
• URALSIB Bank has increased its network of partners on international payment cards issuing
• Sberbank of Russia intends to increase the number of credit cards by 7.5 times
• Master bank: Visa Transport card as a gift
• Sberbank of Russia to issue Visa Infinite cards
• Primorye Bank expands acceptance of customs payments
• Ural Bank of Sberbank of Russia has issued more than 16,000 credit cards
• “Remote banking on the run” – a new service for clients of Bank Koltso Urala
• New Year expenses of Russians have reached the pre-crisis level
• Deposit Insurance Agency forecasts a 1.3 trillion roubles growth of private deposits
• Credit cards in foreign currency in Ukraine are outside of the law

Business. Technologies. Retail

• In Moscow the first “Cash-recycling Russia 2009” Forum went off
• Infocommunication Union launches NFC Test Zone in Russia
• Ukrainian banks starts issuing Visa EMV cards with Pectoral chip–module
• Ukrainian Processing Center has opened its office in Lvov
• Ingenico obtains ISO 9001quality certification for all of its corporate activities

Fraudfighting and Security

• Allianz Kazakhstan has insured ATFBank under the BBB program