The National Payment Corporation of Viet Nam last week said it would work with seven banks to introduce domestic credit chip cards with unified standards to limit cash payments and tackle black credit.
Viet Nam’s first domestic chip cards will be launched in the first quarter of next year to enhance safety and service quality of the country’s bank card operations.
The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has recently issued a standard set for domestic chip cards for the first time to enhance safety and service quality of the country’s bank card operations.
Fifty million of the 132 million bank cards issued in the country are not in use, causing an enormous waste of resources, the Viet Nam Bank Card Association has said.
The Government has approved an e-commerce development plan for 2016-20
that targets 50 per cent of consumers switching from cash to other forms
of payment.
The bank card market in Viet Nam has seen remarkable development in all
activities of issuance, payment, card usage, and network growth over the
past few years.
One of Viet Nam''s largest commercial banks has joined forces with an
e-commerce retail company and a digital linkage service provider in
enabling customers to make online payments.
The Viet Nam Bank Card Association''s report says that 68.55 million bank
cards were in use in the Vietnamese market at the end of the first
quarter of 2014.
The number of bank cards in circulation nationwide reached 62.93 million at the end of the third quarter, rising 4.62 per cent from the previous period, according to the State Bank of Viet Nam.
The number of bank cards issued in Viet Nam rose to 60.15 million as of
the end of the second quarter this year, up 10.8 per cent against late
last year, the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV)''s Payment and Settlement
Department has...