In the UAE, you can now pay with Mir cards

On October 5, 2021, it was announced that the UAE began to accept Mir cards to pay for purchases. The local Network International company, which calls itself the leader in the e-commerce market in the Middle East and Africa, provided its customers with the corresponding technical opportunity.

In early October 2021, at the Dubai International Airport in Duty Free, the general director of the Mir payment system, Vladimir Komlev, conducted one of the first transactions on the Russian payment card in the presence of the first persons of Network International and Dubai Duty Free.

In the UAE, you can now pay with Mir cards

It is specified that by October 2021, Network International is actively connecting the POS terminals of partner trade and service enterprises to the service of Mir cards in Dubai and other areas of the UAE. By the end of 2021, Network International plans to complete the configuration of all existing POS terminals of its network for receiving  Russian cards.

In June 2021, the first deputy chairman CENTRAL BANK OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Olga Skorobogatova during the round table To the State Duma in announced that Bulgaria Thailand they also plan to ensure the reception of Mir cards.

The National Payment Card System (NPCS) has two objectives. Not only the protection of the internal perimeter, but also the development of international cooperation - 14 countries are already providing the reception of Mir maps. Different percentage of admissions, but we see movement in this direction in many countries. For example, Bulgaria and Thailand, in the near future they also plan to ensure the reception of Mir cards, "Skorobogatova said then.

As of October 5, 2021, in addition to the UAE, Mir cards are accepted in 11 countries (Turkey, Vietnam, Armenia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Cyprus). Two more countries conducted test transactions (South Korea and the UK).^[1]

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