OREANDA-NEWS. Tele2, an alternative mobile operator, and Tinkoff Bank, innovative online provider of financial services, have announced a launch of the co-branded Tele2-Tinkoff credit card. Tele2 subscribers may score points for purchased goods and efficiently use bonuses to pay for services and goods in Tele2 stores.

Starting from April 2015, Tele2 clients in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region will be able to use Tele2-Tinkoff bonus credit card equipped by the contactless payment technology PayPass. Tinkoff Bank is offering special conditions and tariffs for Tele2 subscribers’ credit card maintenance:

free-toll issue of a card;

maintenance fee – 590 rubles;

interest rate for purchases in Tele2 stores – 19.9%;

maximum credit limit – 300 000 rubles;

grace period for purchases – 55 days;

welcome bonus after the first purchase – 300 points.

When making purchases in Tele2 stores and topping up their mobile accounts, clients get bonuses that equal 3% of the payment, for any other purchases they receive bonuses at 1% of the sum. A bonus point is equivalent to one Russian ruble. All scored bonuses may be spent for purchases in Tele2 stores and top-ups of mobile account.

Tele2-Tinkoff card holders will not have to visit the bank's offices or Tele2 stores as they can get remote banking services. One can replenish his account with any bank’s card by having filled in a special form at Tinkoff Bank website, via online banking, mobile application or with the help of the bank’s partners – Evroset, Svyaznoy, Qiwi, Post of Russia and any others (list of points where the bank account may be replenished at www.tinkoff.ru).

To get a card, a client needs to fill in a form at creditcard.tele2.ru. Following processing of the application Tinkoff Bank specialists will choose a suitable tariff and find convenient time and place for receipt of the card by the client.