Visa enables payments with expired cards in Georgia during coronavirus pandemic
Visa cardholders with expired cards should contact their issuing banks to confirm operations with their cards. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Visa cardholders in Georgia will be able to use their expired cards for payments without interruptions during the coronavirus pandemic, announces Visa.
Recognising the challenges banks may experience with reissuing and delivering cards to their cardholders during pandemic, Visa reminded our client-banks in Georgia of the authorisation requirements should a cardholder present an expired card. As Visa we can and will support transactions even with expired dates to help our client-banks manage the cards logistics and Visa cardholders pay with Visa - securely and conveniently as usual”, said Cristina Doros, Visa’s country manager for the Caucasus region.
Visa cardholders with expired cards should contact their issuing banks to confirm operations with their cards.
To note, the National Bank of Georgia recommended that consumers use contactless pay methods instead of paying by cash to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
The National Bank of Georgia recommends that consumers use contactless pay methods instead of paying by cash to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. It also urges people to use distant banking services instead of going to the banks.
Georgia takes the first place globally in terms of the percentage of contactless payments in domestic transactions followed by Australia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Cyprus, announced Visa earlier today.
Georgian customers can now enjoy many of Apple's most popular services such as the App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and iCloud are now available in 20 more countries, including Georgia, announces Apple.
Georgia is one of the top six countries in the region where people have and use a Visa card, and the country eagerly accepts new technologies, says world leader in electronic payments Visa International.
Foreign-based Georgian citizens who found themselves in difficult circumstances due to the global COVID-19 outbreak have received assistance from the Georgian government in the form of grocery vouchers.