UNITED Amara Bank (UAB), one of the largest financial institutions in Myanmar, will issue more than 15,000 Visa credit cards by the end of this year, says Christopher Loh, the bank’s chief executive officer and special adviser to the chairman. Loh announced on Tuesday the launch of UAB’s first suite of credit cards with Visa […]
CB Bank Issues Myanmar’s First Visa, MasterCard Credit Cards for Domestic Use
January 25, 2017 by
A week after the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) lifted restrictions on the use of credit and debit cards issued by foreign companies for domestic use, CB Bank, one of Visa’s four local partner banks, has begun issuing Visa and MasterCard credit cards for use within Myanmar. CB Bank is the first of Visa’s […]
Myanmar banks offer international credit cards
June 29, 2016 by
In a boon for holiday shoppers, Myanmar banks are starting to offer customers international credit cards for the first time. The country has only recently returned to true credit cards, which disappeared in the wake of the 2003 banking crisis. At the start of this year some 2 million “credit cards” had been issued, but most operated […]
