Go to mediabankMir national payment system card. File photoBANGKOK, Sep 21Plastic cards of the Russian payment system Mir are still working in Vietnam through one of two authorized banks, RIA Novosti was told at the Russian Embassy in Hanoi on Wednesday. it has been running since 2018, due to the danger of secondary sanctions from the US.Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan has suspended operations with Mir cards at ATMs «BIDV has indeed stopped accepting Mir cards, but the second authorized bank, VRB, is still servicing these cards,» Russian diplomats told the agency. BIDV (Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam is the largest commercial bank in Vietnam in terms of assets, the majority of whose shares are owned by the state, and 15% of the shares are owned by the South Korean bank Hana Bank. BIDV is one of the oldest banks in the country, it was established as the Construction Bank of Vietnam in 1957, in 1981 it was restructured into the Vietnam Investment and Development Bank, and in 1990 it received its current name. VRB (Vietnam-Russia Joint Venture Bank) is a Vietnamese-Russian joint venture in which 50% of the capital is owned by BIDV, and another 50% by Russian VTB. The company was established in 2006. Its creation was the result of many years of interstate trade and economic cooperation between the two countries and cooperation between the Central Banks of the two countries, the description of the bank on its website says. There are about 10 ATMs in Vietnam located at airports and tourist areas of the country, where you can receive cash from cards «Mir».
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