[2007-11-05]  Orient Bank Launches Visa Card
ORIENT Bank has launched the Orient Xpress Visa card to ease its customers' business transactions. The card can be used worldwide.

The service will allow customers access services in supermarkets, petrol stations, hotels and hospitals without using cash.


The bank is also opening branches in the countryside to expand customer base and improve service delivery, Mar Hoorwood, the executive director, said during the launch of Visa Card at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel over the weekend.

"Orient Xpress Visa cardholders will be able to pay their electricity and water bills and buy telephone airtime for any network at the Orient Xpress Visa point of sale outlets," he said.

"Because the Visa card can be used for so many purchases and payments, customers will rarely need cash," Hoorwood said.

He said the cardholders can use the over one million automated teller machines (ATMs) in different countries.

This, Hoorwood explained, would for the first time allow their customers to join the family of 1.4 billion people who use Visa cards worldwide.

"Our customers will access financial services in the sub-region as well as international destinations.

"In Dubai, Orient Xpress Visa holders will be able to use goods and services and be billed in Uganda shillings.

"The same will go for all the different currencies of the world," Horwood said.

He disclosed that the point of sale machines would be deployed in the more rural areas across the country.


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