e-Pay Systems Increasingly Become More Popular

    So far in the province 40 member banks including 37 commercial banks, two State Treasuries and one State-owned Bank have been involved in electronic clearing system with three clearing sessions per day, 18 Banks have made payments via inter-bank electronic payment system and three other have used traditional ways of payment

    ATM Service: The number of ATM cards issued in the period reached 52,461, totaling up the number of cards issued at the end of the period to 700,000; there are now 320 ATM machines, 297 POS available to pay for purchases at the supermarkets and restaurants.

    Export-import payments: In the period they hit U.S. $5380 million including $2,620 million of export payments and $2,760 million of imports.

L.H (P.Linh)