OREANDA-NEWS. February 10, 2010. BTA Bank's subsidiary - Temirbank (Almaty), listing on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), provided KASE with a press release, reported the press-centre of KASE:

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Temirbank is launching microprocessor MasterCard International payment cards.

Thereby Temirbank is extending its product line and along with VISA payment cards, is offering the following payment cards: Maestro, MasterCard Standard, MasterCard Gold and MasterCard Business.

With Temirbank's MasterCards, you can:

- pay for goods and services in over 25 million trade and service points worldwide, including in the Internet;

- receive cash in over 1 million ATMs in 210 countries worldwide.

Payment cards MasterCard are issued within "TemirCard" and "TemirCard Light" products, which is allowing clients to receive remuneration on remains up to 11.6%* APR. Clients may remotely and on the round-the-clock basis manage their finance, through use of electric banking services (Internet-banking, Mobile banking and SMS).

For convenience Temirbank is advising to register two payment cards - VISA and MasterCard.

* annual effective rate computed on the basis of FSA's methodology