DUSHANBE, February 25, 2010, Asia-Plus — In the frame of the project for development of non-cash payments through plastic cards, the Khujand-based open joint-stock company, Eskhata Bank, jointly with the processing center, Rucard, has begun to issue local currency credit cards.
The Eskhata Bank plastic card business development coordinator Dilshod Nematov says the project will help raise status of the national currency, the somoni, increase the number of wage-payment projects involving plastic cards as well as development of non-cash payments in the country.
“To-date, the bank has signed contracts on issuance of local currency credit cards and payment of wages through plastic cards with four large enterprises in the Sughd province,” Nematov said
Established in November 1993, a privately owned Eskhata Bank, with headquarters in Khujand, has eight branches in various regions of the country. The bank got operating license in 1994.
