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First MIR card issued in 2015 by Central Bank of Russia. Mir, as an idea, was born out of a series of joint initiatives between the Central Bank of Russia and the World Bank in the mid-2000s that aimed to create a framework of an autonomous payment processing system inside the Russian Federation. [4]
The National Payment Card System (NSPK) is an operational and payment clearing house for processing bank card transactions within Russia and the operator of the Mir card payment system. It is the operational and payment clearing house of the Fast Payment System (FPS) and wholly owned by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). [3] [4]
In January 2009, MasterCard acquired the controlled payment number system developed by Orbiscom, a Dublin-based payment processing company. [2] In the United States, the system is used by the following credit card issuers: Bank of America "ShopSafe" (inherited when it acquired MBNA) (and now discontinued-see below) [3] and Citibank "Virtual Account Numbers". [4]
The Russian payment card system called Mir will no longer be hosted on Apple Pay, adding to the existing restrictions against Russian economic activity enacted via Apple's contactless payment service.
Now the country is hoping to introduce its cards, known as Mir cards, to foreign markets where Russian nationals live and travel, Vladimir Komlev, the head of Russia's National Card Payment System ...
In April 2012, Yandex Money began issuing debit cards on the Mastercard network. [6] [7] [8] In October 2012, the company enabled making card payments via a miniature point of sale terminal attached to a user's smartphone. [9] In July 2013, Sberbank acquired a 75% interest in Yandex.Money for $60 million, while Yandex retained a 25% interest ...
While the physical card does not need to be presented to the merchant (which would be impossible over the phone), the customer authorising the payment should still be possess the card. To verify this, the virtual terminal often requires the card security code to be entered, which the customer must provide. One alternative for merchants is to ...
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