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Myanmar Citizens Bank launches MPU-JCB Co-Branded Debit Card in Myanmar

Yangon, 26 June 2020. Myanmar Citizens Bank (MCB Bank), a listed company on the Yangon Stock Exchange in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Myanmar), announced the launch of MCB Bank MPU-JCB Co-Branded Debit Cards in collaboration with Myanmar Payment Union (MPU) and JCB International Co. Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd and

The MCB Bank MPU-JCB Co-Branded Debit Card combines the MPU brand and JCB brand with the MCB Bank brand, a strong and trusted banking brand in Myanmar. Card members can use MPU's nation-wide merchant network in Myanmar and JCB's international merchant network with over 34 million merchants globally.

The new MCB Bank International Debit Card offers 2 different card types, Platinum debit card and Standard debit card. All the card members can enjoy JCB privileges such as discounts at over 150 merchants in Yangon and an extensive merchant network around the world.

In addition to the above, Platinum card members can enjoy exclusive JCB Platinum services such as JCB Platinum airport lounge service for free at 41 airports worldwide.

Mr Godfrey Swain, CEO of MCB Bank commented, “We are delighted to team up with MPU and JCB for the launch of Myanmar Citizens Bank MPU JCB Co-Branded Debit card to support the needs of our customers with convenience of cashless transactions domestically in Myanmar and internationally. The card can be used for all face-to-face and E-commerce payments as well as for ATM transactions. Our customers will enjoy the extensive range of merchant discount benefits that come with the card, please visit Myanmar Citizens Bank website for more product information. The launch of this card is another step forward in realizing the transformational vision of MCB Bank.”

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Takeshi Fujii, Chief Representative of JCB International (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Yangon Branch) commented, “Myanmar is one of the most important countries for our global business expansion with the number of JCB cards in Myanmar now reaching 2 million”. We would like to contribute significantly to the vision of a cashless society in Myanmar through this new tie-up venture with MCB Bank”.

About MCB Bank Established in 1992, Myanmar Citizens Bank (MCB) is one of the first private commercial banks in the country, the first bank to be listed on the Yangon Stock Exchange and enjoys one of the fastest growth rates in the Myanmar banking sector. MCB, a Bank with a traditional focus on Commercial and SME segments, is rapidly expanding its Corporate and Retail banking arms developing new innovative and competitive products and services distributed through a network of nearly 50 branches covering 26 cities in Myanmar. In 2019 MCB signed a wide-ranging, long term consultancy and partnership agreement with the International Financial Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank, embarking on a three-year transformational journey to modernize and build a best in class, universal banking model meeting and exceeding international banking standards, efficiency and customer service levels. For more information, please visit : https://www.mcb.com.mm About JCB JCB is a global payment brand and a leading credit card issuer and acquirer in Japan. JCB launched its card business in Japan in 1961 and began expanding worldwide in 1981. Its acceptance network includes about 34 million merchants as well as cash advance locations around the world. JCB cards are now issued in 24 countries and territories, with more than 140 million cardmembers. As a comprehensive payment solution provider, JCB commits to providing responsive and high-quality service and products to all customers worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.global.jcb/en/

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ျမနမာႏငငသားမားဘဏမ MPU-JCB Co-Branded Debit Card အား ျမနမာႏငငတြင စတငမတဆကၿခငး ရနကန၊ ၂၀၂၀ ခႏစ၊ ဇြနလ ၂၆ ရက - ျပညေထာငစသမၼတ ျမနမာႏငငေတာ (ျမနမာႏငင) ၏ ရနကနစေတာအတခနးတြင စာရငးဝငကမၸဏတစချဖစသည ျမနမာႏငငသားမားဘဏ (MCB Bank) သည Myanmar Payment Union (MPU) ႏင JCB Co., Ltd ၏ ႏငငတကာႏငပတသကေသာကမၸဏခြ ျဖစသည JCB International Co. Ltd. (JCBI) တ႔ႏင ပးေပါငးကာ MCB Bank MPU-JCB Co-Branded Debit Card အား စတငမတဆကမႈ ျပလပေၾကာငး ေၾကညာခပါသည။

MCB ၏ MPU-JCB Co-Branded Debit Card တြင MPU brand ႏင ျမနမာႏငငရ ခငမာ၊ ယၾကညရေသာ ဘဏလပငနး အမတတဆပျဖစသည MCB ဘဏႏငအတ JCB brand တ႔ ေပါငးစပပါဝငပါသည။ ကတကငေဆာငသမားအေနႏင MPU ၏ ျမနမာတစႏငငလးရ merchant network ႏင JCB ၏ ႏငငတကာအႏ႔ လပငနး ၃၄ သနးရေသာ merchant network တ႔အား အသးျပႏငမညျဖစပါသည။

MCB ၏ International Debit Card အသစတြင Platinum debit card ႏင Standard debit card ဟ၍ ကတအမးအစား ၂ မး ရပါသည။ ကတကငေဆာငသမား အားလးအေနႏင ရနကနၿမ႕ရ ဆငေပါငး ၁၅၀ ေကာႏင ကမာၻအႏရလပငနးမားတြင ေလာေစး ရရျခငးကသ႔ JCB အထးခစားခြငမားအား ရရ၊ ခစားႏငမည ျဖစပါသည။

ထ႔အျပင Platinum card ကငေဆာငသမားသည ႏငငတကာေလဆပ ၄၁ ခတြင JCB Platinum airport lounge service အား အခမ ရရႏငျခငးကသ႔ JCB Platinum ဝနေဆာငမႈမားကလညး ရရႏငပါသည။

MCB ဘဏ၏ အမႈေဆာငအရာရျဖစသ Mr. Godfrey Swain မ ေျပာၾကားသညမာ - “ကၽြနေတာတ႔အေနန႔ customer ေတြရ႕ လအပ ခကေတြအတြက ျမနမာႏငငအတြငးန႔ ႏငငတကာမာပါ ေငြသားမ ေငြလႊေဆာငရြကမႈေတြက အဆငေျပလြယကစြာ လပေဆာငႏင ေစဖ႔ ပပးမႈတစရပအေနန႔ ျမနမာႏငငသားမားဘဏရ႕ MPU JCB Co-Branded Debit card က စတငႏငဖ႔ MPU ၊ JCB တ႔န႔ အတ ပးေပါငး လပကငရတအေပၚ ဝမးေျမာကရပါတယ။ ဒကတက ကယတငဝယယမႈ၊ E-commerce ေပးေခမႈ၊ ATM ေငြလႊမႈ စတာေတြအားလး အတြက အသးျပႏငပါတယ။ ကၽြနေတာတ႔ရ႕ customer ေတြအေနန႔ ကတန႔အတ merchant ေလာေစး ခစားခြငမားစြာက ရရ၊ ခစားႏငမာလညး ျဖစပါတယ။ အေသးစတက ျမနမာႏငငသားမားဘဏရ႕ ဝကဘဆကမာ ဝငေရာကၾကညရႈ ေစလပါတယ။ ဒကတ စတငလကျခငးဟာ MCB ရ႕ အသြငကးေျပာငးေရးဆငရာ ရညမနးခကအတြက ေျခလမးတစရပ ေရ႕တး ေဆာငရြကလကျခငးပ ျဖစပါတယ။”

JCB International (Thailand) Co., Ltd. ၊ ရနကနရးခြမ Chief Representative ျဖစသ Mr. Takeshi Fujii မလညး “ကၽြနေတာတ႔ရ႕ JCB ကတအသးျပ လပငနးတးခ႕မႈမာ ျမနမာႏငငဟာ အေရးႀကးတႏငငေတြထက တစချဖစပါတယ။ ျမနမာႏငငမာ JCB ကတ

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အသးျပမႈဟာ လကရမာ ၂ သနးအထ ရေနပါၿပ။ MCB ဘဏန႔ ယခလ ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကမႈကေန ျမနမာႏငငမာ ေငြသားကငေဆာင အသးျပစရာ မလတ လမႈအဖြ႔အစညးတစရပ ရလာေစဖ႔ ကၽြနေတာတ႔ ရညရြယထားပါတယ။

ျမနမာႏငငသားမားဘဏအေၾကာငး အကဥးေဖာျပခက

၁၉၉၂ ခႏစတြင စတငတညေထာငခသည ျမနမာႏငငသားမားဘဏ (MCB) သည ႏငငအတြငးတညေထာငခသည ပထမဆး ပဂၢလကပငဘဏမားထမ တစချဖစၿပး၊ ရနကနစေတာအတခနးတြငလညး ပထမဆး စာရငးဝငဘဏၿဖစသည။ ျမနမာဘဏလပငနး က႑တြင အျမနဆနဆးေသာ တးတကမႈႏႈနးမားၿဖင ေအာငျမငလကရသည ဘဏတစခ ျဖစပါသည။ Commercial ႏင SME က႑ မားအား ယခငကတညးက အေလးထားခေသာ MCB သည ႏငငအႏ ၿမ႕ႀကး ၂၆ ၿမ႕တြင ဖြငလစထားသည ဘဏခြေပါငး ၅၀ နးပါးမ တဆင ထတကနသစႏင ဝနေဆာငမႈသစမားအား စစဥေပးအပလက ဘဏ၏ Corporate ႏင Retail banking ပငးအား လငျမနစြာ တးခ႕လကရပါသည။ MCB သည ၂၀၁၉ ခႏစတြင ကမာၻ႕ဘဏ၏ အဖြ႔ဝငျဖစသည International Financial Corporation (IFC) ႏင အတငပငခ ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကေရးဆငရာ ေရရည-စာခပတစရပအား လကမတေရးထးခၿပး၊ ႏငငတကာ ဘဏ လပငနးစႏႈနးမား၊ ထေရာကမႈအဆင၊ customer ဝနေဆာငမႈအဆငမားႏင ကကညရသာမက သာလြနသည အဆငျမင universal banking model အျဖစ ပေဖာ၊ တညေဆာကႏငေရး ၃ ႏစတာ ျပျပငေျပာငးလေရးခရးစဥက စတငလကရပါသည။

အျခားေသာ သတငးအခကအလကမား ထပမသရလပါက https://www.mcb.com.mm တြင ဝငေရာက ၾကညရႈႏငပါသည။

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JCB သည ႏငငတကာေပးေခမႈအမတတဆပတစခ ျဖစၿပး၊ ဂပနႏငငတြင Credit Card ဥးေဆာငထတေဝသ၊ ကတအတြက ဝနေဆာငမႈလပငနးမား ေဆာငရြကေပးသျဖစသည။ JCB သည ၄ငး၏ ကတလပငနးက ဂပနႏငငတြင ၁၉၆၁ ခႏစမစတငခၿပး၊ ၁၉၈၁ တြင တစကမာၻလးအတငးအတာျဖင တးခ႕လပကငခသည။ JCB ၏ ကြနရကတြင ႏငငတကာ စးပြားေရးလပငနးေပါငး ၃၄ သနးႏင ေငြႀကထတႏငသညေနရာမား ပါဝငသည။ JCB ကတမားအား ယခအခနအထ ႏငင/ေဒသ (၂၄) ခရ လဥးေရ သနး ၁၄၀ အား ထတေပးၿပး ျဖစသည။ JCB သည အမးမးေသာေပးေခမႈဆငရာ ဝနေဆာငမႈလပငနးမား ေဆာငရြကေပးသအၿဖစ ႏငငတကာရ customer မားအား ထေရာကေသာ အရညအေသြးျမငဝနေဆာငမႈႏငထတကနမားက ဝနေဆာငေပးလကရပါသည။

အျခားေသာ သတငးအခကအလကမား ထပမသရလပါက www.global.jcb/en/ တြင ဝငေရာက ၾကညရႈႏငပါသည။

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