Related News
More banks mull multi-currency cards as outbound travel booms
By Hu Xiaocen |
June 17, 2013, Monday
|
Online Edition
Online Edition
CHINESE banks scrambled for credit card business and customers who need to make cross-border payments while travelling overseas as China is poised to become the world's biggest outbound travel market this year.
The number of Chinese traveling overseas will exceed that of the United States and Germany this year, according to an industry report released ahead of the Beijing International Tourism Expo next week.
Chinese tourists enjoyed shopping abroad because luxury goods are cheaper compared with prices in the domestic market. To meet their growing demand for cross-border payments, Chinese banks have issued a variety of multi-currency credit cards.
Given a surge in credit card frauds, Bank of China, the nation's top foreign exchange bank, recently issued the first multi-currency chip credit card in the country that complies with the international standard called EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa).
The chip cards are believed to be more secure than traditional magnetic stripe cards because they are much harder to clone. Under the EMV standard each transaction is "stamped" to prevent data from being fraudulently reused.
The magnetic stripe cards will gradually phase out and from 2015 Chinese lenders are only allowed to issue chip cards, according to the People's Bank of China, the Chinese central bank.
The multi-currency Visa credit card issued by Bank of China cannot be used domestically because it doesn't comply with the domestic payment network that uses the local standard known as PBOC 2.0.
The number of Chinese traveling overseas will exceed that of the United States and Germany this year, according to an industry report released ahead of the Beijing International Tourism Expo next week.
Chinese tourists enjoyed shopping abroad because luxury goods are cheaper compared with prices in the domestic market. To meet their growing demand for cross-border payments, Chinese banks have issued a variety of multi-currency credit cards.
Given a surge in credit card frauds, Bank of China, the nation's top foreign exchange bank, recently issued the first multi-currency chip credit card in the country that complies with the international standard called EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa).
The chip cards are believed to be more secure than traditional magnetic stripe cards because they are much harder to clone. Under the EMV standard each transaction is "stamped" to prevent data from being fraudulently reused.
The magnetic stripe cards will gradually phase out and from 2015 Chinese lenders are only allowed to issue chip cards, according to the People's Bank of China, the Chinese central bank.
The multi-currency Visa credit card issued by Bank of China cannot be used domestically because it doesn't comply with the domestic payment network that uses the local standard known as PBOC 2.0.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
