MTB BANK starts issuing cards of the international payment system, UnionPay. These cards will allow you to carry out payment transactions in China, Ukraine and other 177 countries and regions. Also, customers can enjoy exclusive UnionPay offers and discounts.

More than 9 billion UnionPay cards have been issued in the global market. “MTB BANK will provide UnionPay cardholders with world-class quality financial services. - said Yury Kralov, Chairman of the Board of MTB BANK. - What will increase the degree of integration of MTB BANK into the global financial system and help Ukrainian trade enterprises and small businesses to significantly expand their capabilities”,

Yury Kralov noted that the issuance of UnionPay cards is only the first stage of the cooperation. “Our plans for further interaction with UnionPay include the development and implementation of joint innovative payment products. This will not only increase the level of banking services for the clients of our bank, but will also contribute to the modernization of the payment industry at the state level, ”says Yuri Kralov.

“We can already say with confidence that MTB Bank became one of the first issuer of UnionPay cards in Ukraine. This great success deserves special attention. I am sure that this is only the beginning of our long and successful path to building long-term cooperation”, said Fan Jiguang, Head of the UnionPay International Regional Office in Central Asia.

Clients will be able to apply UnionPay contactless cards (Classic and Diamond levels) in all cities of MTB BANK's presence in the spring of next year, and these are twelve regions of Ukraine and more than 50 branches providing a full range of banking services. Such cards facilitate access to trading platforms-partners of the world's largest payment system and those bank customers who often visit China, Southeast Asia or do business with Chinese partners.

Reference. In July 2020, MTB BANK became a member (in the highest status of a principal partner) of one of the world's largest payment systems UnionPay International. Today in Ukraine, only three banks have the status of a member of the international payment system UnionPay International, including PJSC "MTB BANK".

Back in 2019, MTB BANK created a processing platform based on the OpenWay solution, the bank's processing center was successfully tested and certified at the PROSTIR NPS (in July 2020, the inter-host online protocol ISO 8583 Native interface Tieto for the PROSTIR NPS was implemented) and in this On the basis of the same processing solution, the company successfully passed testing and certification at the UnionPay International Railways Ministry. On December 16, 2020, the bank received Go live via UnionPay International IPS.