UnionPay (), also known as China UnionPay () or by its abbreviation, CUP or UPI internationally, is a Chinese
state-owned
State ownership, also called government ownership and public ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, or enterprise by the state or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party. Public ownersh ...
financial services
Financial services are the Service (economics), economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, acco ...
corporation headquartered in
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
, China. It provides
bank card services and a major
card scheme
Card schemes are payment networks linked to payment cards, such as debit or credit cards, of which a bank or any other eligible financial institution can become a member. By becoming a member of the scheme, the member then gets the possibility to ...
in
mainland China
"Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...
. Founded on 26 March 2002, China UnionPay is an association for China's banking card industry, operating under the approval of the
People's Bank of China (PBOC, central bank of China). It is also an
electronic funds transfer at
point of sale
The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed. At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice f ...
(
EFTPOS) network, and the only
interbank network
An interbank network, also known as an ATM consortium or ATM network, is a computer network that enables ATM cards issued by a financial institution that is a member of the network to be used to perform ATM transactions through ATMs that belon ...
in China that links all the
automatic teller machine
An automated teller machine (ATM) or cash machine (in British English) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, fund ...
(ATMs) of all
bank
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets.
Because ...
s throughout the country. UnionPay cards can be used in 180 countries and regions around the world.
In 2015 the UnionPay overtook
Visa
Visa most commonly refers to:
*Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company
** Visa Debit card issued by the above company
** Visa Electron, a debit card
** Visa Plus, an interbank network
*Travel visa, a document that allows ...
and
Mastercard in total value of payments made by customers and became the largest card payment processing organization (
debit
Debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping are entries made in account ledgers to record changes in value resulting from business transactions. A debit entry in an account represents a transfer of value ''to'' that account, and a credit en ...
and
credit card
A credit card is a payment card issued to users (cardholders) to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services based on the cardholder's accrued debt (i.e., promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts plus the o ...
s combined) in the world surpassing the two.
However, only 0.5% of this payment volume was outside of China.
UnionPay offers
mobile and
online payment
An e-commerce payment system (or an electronic payment system) facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for offline transfer, also known as a subcomponent of electronic data interchange (EDI), e-commerce payment systems have become incre ...
s services.
History
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With the approval of the
People's Bank of China (PBOC), China UnionPay was launched on 26 March 2002, in Shanghai by PBOC governor
Dai Xianglong
Dai Xianglong (; born 1 October 1944) is a Chinese politician. He is the former governor of the People's Bank of China, and the former mayor of Tianjin. He currently serves as the president and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) party chief of the N ...
, The
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC; ) is a Chinese multinational bank.
Founded as a limited company on 1 January 1984, ICBC is a state-owned commercial bank. With capital provided by the Ministry of Finance of China, the ...
, the
Agricultural Bank of China, the
Bank of China
The Bank of China (BOC; ) is a Chinese majority state-owned commercial bank headquartered in Beijing and the fourth largest bank in the world.
The Bank of China was founded in 1912 by the Republican government as China's central bank, repl ...
and the
China Construction Bank served as its first members.
However, the concept of a unified Chinese bank card network dates back to 1993, with the formation of the "Golden Card Project" advocated by then-
Chinese leader Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as pres ...
. UnionPay is considered its descendant, although attempts at unifying China's various credit card and interbank networks have been in place since the 1990s.
In 2014, UnionPay was reported to have been contributing to
capital flight from China through poorly regulated store front operations in
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
. The same year, the total amount of cross-bank transactions of CUP card exceeded 41.1 trillion yuan.
Partnerships
In 2005, UnionPay entered into agreements with other payment networks to increase acceptance around the world. Some major examples include:
*
Discover
Discover may refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
* ''Discover'' (album), a Cactus Jack album
* ''Discover'' (magazine), an American science magazine
Businesses and brands
* DISCover, the ''Digital Interactive Systems Corporation''
* Di ...
in United States
*
RuPay in India
*
JCB in Japan
*
BC Card
BC Card (Hangul: 비씨카드) is a South Korean financial services company headquartered in Seoul. South Korea's largest payment processing company, it provides end-to-end payment services, primarily to financial institutions, as well as to loca ...
in South Korea
*
Mir in Russia
Use outside of China : Europe
UnionPay announced in 2016 that more than 2.2 million merchants in 39 European countries and regions accept UnionPay, taking up 50% of all the merchants supporting bankcard payment.
UnionPay is also accepted at business schools and Universities in order to allow Asian students to pay large sums of money for their tuition fees.
Merchants from certain sectors considered "High risk" or prohibited by the government cannot open a UnionPay account.
Use outside of China : rest of the world
Some UnionPay credit cards are also affiliated with
American Express
American Express Company (Amex) is an American multinational corporation specialized in payment card services headquartered at 200 Vesey Street in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The company was found ...
(AmEx),
MasterCard, or
Visa
Visa most commonly refers to:
*Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company
** Visa Debit card issued by the above company
** Visa Electron, a debit card
** Visa Plus, an interbank network
*Travel visa, a document that allows ...
, and they can be used abroad as American Express, MasterCard, or Visa credit cards. UnionPay debit cards, however, can only be used in the UnionPay network and other networks that have signed contracts with UnionPay. Since 2006, China UnionPay cards can be used in over 100 countries outside China.
In May 2005,
Discover Network
Discover is a credit card brand issued primarily in the United States. It was introduced by Sears in 1985. When launched, Discover did not charge an annual fee and offered a higher-than-normal credit limit, features that were disruptive to the e ...
announced an alliance with China UnionPay Network. The two companies have signed a long-term agreement that allows acceptance of Discover Network brand cards at UnionPay ATMs and point-of-sale terminals in China and acceptance of China UnionPay cards on the
PULSE network in the U.S.
As of 1 November 2007, China UnionPay cards may be accepted where Discover Network Cards are accepted in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
,
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
,
Central America
Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...
, and the
Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
.
As of early 2013, the cross acceptance agreement was expanded to support
e-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain manageme ...
or
card-not-present transactions. In March 2010,
PayPal announced a partnership with China UnionPay enabling the use of PayPal with UnionPay member cards. In 2015, China's
State Administration of Foreign Exchange
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) of the People's Republic of China is an administrative agency under the State Council tasked with drafting rules and regulations governing foreign exchange market activities, and managing the s ...
(SAFE) placed a ¥100,000 annual cap on overseas cash withdrawals from Chinese banks-issued UnionPay accounts. In November 2017,
Azoya teamed up with UnionPay to enable consumers in China to profit from the
Black Friday online shopping festival via a cross-border marketing platform.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 6 March 2022,
Sberbank,
Alfa Bank and
Tinkoff Bank reported several Russian banks would switch to UnionPay after
Visa
Visa most commonly refers to:
*Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company
** Visa Debit card issued by the above company
** Visa Electron, a debit card
** Visa Plus, an interbank network
*Travel visa, a document that allows ...
and
Mastercard said they would suspend operations in Russia due to
Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Russian banks intend to tie the UnionPay system with Russia's
Mir network.
On 20 April 2022, UnionPay reportedly discontinued cooperation with major Russian banks including Sberbank. Russian media outlet
RBC
RBC may refer to:
Media and arts
* ''RBK Daily'', a general business newspaper published in Moscow, Russia.
* RBK Group, a large Russian media group
* RBC Ministries, now Our Daily Bread Ministries, a Christian media outlet in Grand Rapdis, Mich ...
stated that they did so out of fear of secondary sanctions.
In August 2022, it was reported that Russian visitors to Finland were circumventing banking restrictions by withdrawing Euros from Finnish cash machines using UnionPay cards.
Members
UnionPay is the primary network of these Chinese banks:
*
Agricultural Bank of China
*
Bank of China
The Bank of China (BOC; ) is a Chinese majority state-owned commercial bank headquartered in Beijing and the fourth largest bank in the world.
The Bank of China was founded in 1912 by the Republican government as China's central bank, repl ...
(including its Hong Kong-based subsidiaries
Nanyang Commercial Bank
Nanyang Commercial Bank (NCB, Chinese: 南洋商業銀行) is a bank based in Hong Kong and a wholly owned subsidiary of China Cinda Asset Management
China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd. known as China Cinda or just Cinda is a Chinese merc ...
and
BOC Hong Kong)
*
Bank of Communications
Bank of Communications Limited (BoComm) (; often abbreviated as ), is the fifth-largest bank in mainland China.
Established in 1908, the Bank of Communications claims a long history in China and is one of the banks to have issued banknotes in mo ...
(Credit cards )
*
Bank of Beijing
*
Bank of Ningbo
Bank of Ningbo Co., Ltd. is a Chinese city-based commercial bank headquartered in Ningbo, Zhejiang. As at 31 December 2015, The company had 30 branches (, each branches itself managed several locations as ) in several cities in Yangtze River D ...
*
Bank of Shanghai
Bank of Shanghai Co., Ltd. (BOSC) is an urban commercial bank based in Shanghai in China. The bank was ranked 73rd among 1000 banks around the world by ''The Banker'' in terms of their Tier 1 capital in 2020.
History
The Bank of Shanghai was foun ...
*
China CITIC Bank
*
China Construction Bank
*
China Everbright Bank
China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd. is one of twelve Chinese joint-stock commercial bank. Established in August 1992, it is a national joint-stock commercial bank approved by the State Council and approved by the People's Bank of China, headquartered ...
*
China Merchants Bank
*
China Minsheng Banking Corporation
China Minsheng Bank (), founded on January 12, 1996, in Beijing, is the first bank in China to be owned mostly by private sector enterprises. The bank was founded by Jing Shuping, a Chinese lawyer and businessman.
Minsheng Bank is well known fo ...
*
Guangdong Development Bank
China Guangfa Bank (, abbr: CGB) is a commercial banking corporation headquartered in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. The bank was established in September 1988 as Guangdong Development Bank (),. As CGB's largest shareholder, Citigroup h ...
*
Huaxia Bank
Huaxia Bank Co., Ltd. is a publicly traded commercial bank in China. It is based in Beijing and was founded in 1992. Germany's Deutsche Bank holds 19.99% of the bank's shares as of 2010. In December 2015, it was announced that People's Insurance ...
(Credit cards co-issued with
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Sto ...
)
*
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC; ) is a Chinese multinational bank.
Founded as a limited company on 1 January 1984, ICBC is a state-owned commercial bank. With capital provided by the Ministry of Finance of China, the ...
(ICBC)
*
Industrial Bank (Credit cards co-issued with
Hang Seng Bank)
*
Ping An Bank
Ping An Bank Co., Ltd. is a Chinese joint-stock commercial bank with its headquarters in Shenzhen. It primarily operates in Mainland China with a representative branch in Hong Kong. The bank offers services in retail and corporate banking, includi ...
*
Postal Savings Bank of China
Postal Savings Bank of China Co., Ltd. also known as PSBC is a commercial retail bank founded in 2007 and headquartered in Beijing. It provides basic financial services, especially to small and medium enterprises, rural and low income custo ...
(formerly known as the China Postal Savings and Remittance Bureau)
*
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
*
Taizhou City Commercial Bank
Bank of Taizhou (TZB; simplified Chinese 台州银行) is a city commercial bank headquartered in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - China. On 9 September 2010, it was officially renamed as Bank of Taizhou from the original name of Taizhou City Com ...
Other UnionPay-affiliated organisations include municipal commercial banks as well as rural
credit cooperative
A credit union, a type of financial institution similar to a commercial bank, is a member-owned nonprofit financial cooperative. Credit unions generally provide services to members similar to retail banks, including deposit accounts, provisio ...
s.
Overall, there are 165 financial institutions that issue UnionPay cards.
UnionPay had partnered with
JETCO
JETCO (), officially Joint Electronic Teller Services Limited () is a network of automatic teller machines in Hong Kong and Macau.
History
JETCO was founded by the Hong Kong Branch of the Bank of China (now Bank of China (Hong Kong)) in 1982 alon ...
in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
and
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
until 1 January 2006. As of January 2013, Bank of East Asia and Citibank were the only banks allowed to independently issue UnionPay credit cards in Hong Kong and the mainland. HSBC and its subsidiary Hang Seng Bank independently issue UnionPay credit cards in Hong Kong, while they issue cards in the mainland in cooperation with local banks as noted above. Deutsche Bank only has co-issued cards, with no independently issued UnionPay credit cards.
The following eleven foreign banks have the right to issue UnionPay debit cards in China:
*
Bank of China (Hong Kong)
Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited () also known as its short name Bank of China (Hong Kong) or BOCHK (), is a subsidiary of the Bank of China (via a Hong Kong-listed intermediate holding company BOC Hong Kong (Holdings)). Bank of China (Hong K ...
*
Bank of East Asia
*
Citibank
Citibank, N. A. (N. A. stands for " National Association") is the primary U.S. banking subsidiary of financial services multinational Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, and later became First National City ...
*
DBS Bank
DBS Bank Limited, often known as DBS, is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered at the Marina Bay Financial Centre in the Marina Bay district of Singapore. The bank was previously known as The Dev ...
(as of July 2009)
*
Hana Bank (as of November 2009)
*
Hang Seng Bank
*
HSBC
HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in Europe by total assets ahead of BNP Paribas, with US$2.953 trillion as of December 2021. In 2021, HSBC had $10.8 tri ...
*
OCBC Bank (as of 2010)
*
OCBC Wing Hang Bank
OCBC Wing Hang Bank Limited (), formerly Wing Hang Bank Limited is a licensed bank with its head office in Hong Kong, where it is the eighth biggest bank by total assets. Since end of July 2014 Wing Hang Bank has been a subsidiary of Oversea-Ch ...
(as of 2010)
*
Standard Chartered Bank
Standard Chartered plc is a multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around ...
*
Woori Bank (as of May 2009)
UnionPay in other countries:
*
AGD Bank AGD may refer to:
* AGD Interactive, a non-profit software company
* Academy of General Dentistry
* Association for Genome Diagnostics
* Airgun Designs, a manufacturer of paintball equipment
* Agarabi language
* ''The Ambiguously Gay Duo'', an anim ...
offers a UnionPay debit card in Myanmar
*
Askari Bank offers a UnionPay debit card in Pakistan
*
Australia Post
Australia Post, formally the Australian Postal Corporation, is the government business enterprise that provides postal services in Australia. The head office of Australia Post is located in Bourke Street, Melbourne, which also serves as a post o ...
, previously distributed the "Load&Go China" card, issued by
Bank of China
The Bank of China (BOC; ) is a Chinese majority state-owned commercial bank headquartered in Beijing and the fourth largest bank in the world.
The Bank of China was founded in 1912 by the Republican government as China's central bank, repl ...
(
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
) Limited; featuring imagery of the
Great Wall
The Great Wall of China (, literally "ten thousand Li (unit), ''li'' wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against Eurasian noma ...
*
Baiduri Bank offers a UnionPay debit card in Brunei
*
Bangkok Bank offers a UnionPay credit card in Thailand
*
Bank Central Asia offers a UnionPay credit card in Indonesia
*
Banque Pour Le Commerce Exterieur Lao (BCEL) offers both UnionPay debit and Credit card in Laos
*
Bank Sinarmas offers a UnionPay debit card in Indonesia
*
BDO Unibank offers a UnionPay credit card in the Philippines
*
Cebuana Lhuillier Micro Savings offers 24K UnionPay Debit Card in the Philippines.
*
CIM Bank
CIM Bank is a Swiss private bank. Founded in Geneva in 1990, by Francesco Signorio. Since then the Bank has been continuously growing every year. The Bank actually serves around 10'000 institutional, corporate and private clients worldwide.
The B ...
, a Swiss Bank, offers UnionPay credit cards to domestic and foreign customers
*
DBS Bank
DBS Bank Limited, often known as DBS, is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered at the Marina Bay Financial Centre in the Marina Bay district of Singapore. The bank was previously known as The Dev ...
offers a UnionPay debit card in Singapore.
*
Halyk Bank
Halyk Bank ( kk, Қазақстан Халық Жинақ Банкі, ''Qazaqstan Halyq Jınaq Banki'') is a commercial savings bank in Kazakhstan that also has branches in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Its full Kazakh ...
offers both UnionPay credit and debit cards in Kazakhstan
*
Gazprombank offers both UnionPay credit & debit cards in Russia.
*
Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam
Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, commonly referred to as Vietcombank, is a commercial bank in Vietnam.
Overview
Vietcombank's headquarters are located in Hanoi, Vietnam. the bank had 116 branches and 474 transaction ...
(Vietcombank) offers both UnionPay credit and debit cards in Vietnam
*
Kasikornbank
Kasikornbank ( th, ธนาคารกสิกรไทย, , Teochew: Khai-thài Ngîng-hâng, , stylised in all caps), often stylised as KBank and formerly known as the Thai Farmers Bank is a banking group in Thailand. KBank was establishe ...
offers a UnionPay credit card in Thailand
*
Kazkommertsbank
Kazkommertsbank ( kk, Қазкоммерцбанк, ''Qazkommertsbank'') was the largest private bank in Kazakhstan with a total market share of 24%. Kazkommertsbank merged with Halyk Bank on 27 July 2018.
About
Kazkommertsbank is a large provi ...
offers UnionPay credit cards in Kazakhstan
*
Krung Thai Bank
Krungthai Bank ( th, ธนาคารกรุงไทย; ), officially Krungthai Bank Public Company Limited, and sometimes known by its initials KTB, is a state-owned bank under license issued by the Ministry of Finance (Thailand), Ministry ...
offers a UnionPay debit card in Thailand
*
Lotte Card
Lotte Card Co, Ltd. is a Korean credit card company. Headquartered in Seoul, Lotte Card has a partnership with Lotte Capital, and both companies are part of the Lotte Corporation. Lotte Card was established in December 2002 as a technical and b ...
offers a UnionPay credit card in the Republic of Korea.
*
Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS offers a UnionPay credit card in Japan.
* offers a UnionPay credit card in Azerbaijan.
* SCT Networks offers a UnionPay Debit card in Nepal.
*
Himalayan Bank
Himalayan Bank Limited (HBL) is one of the largest private banks in Nepal. The Bank was incorporated in 1992 by a few eminent individuals of Nepal in partnership with the Employees Provident Fund and Habib Bank Limited of Pakistan. The bank com ...
offers a UnionPay Prepaid cards in Nepal.
*
Nepal Investment Bank Limited
Nepal Investment Bank Limited is one of the leading commercial banks of Nepal.Previously known as Nepal Indosuez Bank Ltd., the bank was established in 1986 as a joint venture between Nepalese and Credit Agricole Indosuez
Credit (from Latin ...
offers a UnionPay cards in Nepal.
*
NIC ASIA Bank
NIC ASIA Bank was founded as Nepal Industrial and Commercial Bank on 21 July 1998. It was renamed NIC ASIA Bank on 30 June 2013 after it merged with Bank of Asia. The merger was the first between of two commercial banks in the Nepalese Banking ...
offers a UnionPay virtual cards in Nepal.
*
AmBank
AmBank Group comprises AMMB Holdings Berhad (AMBANK 1015) is one of the largest banking groups in Malaysia whose core businesses are retail banking, wholesale banking, Islamic banking, and life and general insurance.
The Group trades under a ...
offers a UnionPay Credit card in Malaysia.
*
Public Bank offers a UnionPay Debit card in Malaysia.
*
Philippine National Bank (PNB) offers a UnionPay credit card in the Philippines.
*
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) offers a UnionPay credit card in the Philippines.
* Sacombank offers both UnionPay credit and debit cards in Vietnam
*
Mitsui Sumitomo Bank offers a UnionPay credit card in Japan.
*
Shinhan Bank
Shinhan Bank Co., Ltd. () is a bank headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Historically it was the first bank in Korea, established under the name Hanseong Bank in 1897. The bank was reestablished in 1982. It is part of the Shinhan Financial Gro ...
offers a UnionPay credit card in the Republic of Korea.
*
United Overseas Bank offers a UnionPay credit card in Singapore.
*
Vostochny Express Bank offers both UnionPay credit & debit cards in Russia.
*
National Bank of Pakistan
National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) () is a Pakistani government-owned multinational commercial bank which is a subsidiary of State Bank of Pakistan. It is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. As of September 2020, it has 1,511 branches across Pakist ...
offers UnionPay debit cards in Pakistan.
*
1LINK offers UnionPay debit cards through its member banks in Pakistan.
* Credicorp Bank offers UnionPay debit cards in Panama.
See also
*
Banking in China
*
UnionPay (application)
References
External links
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