UZCARD

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Overview

UZCARD is Uzbek national interbank payment processing system + card scheme + Central Bank of Uzbekistan CBU + Uzbek government-aligned + Uzbekistan's primary national payment processing switch + card scheme + ~25M+ UZCARD cards issued [1, uz-cro].

History

2004 — UZCARD JSC founded under Uzbek government banking modernisation as Uzbekistan's primary national payment processing switch + card scheme distinctive Uzbek payments heritage.

2017 — UZCARD UPay mobile QR payments + wallet app launch.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: UZCARD JSC (Uzbek national interbank payment processing system + card scheme).

Major shareholders: Central Bank of Uzbekistan CBU + Uzbek government-aligned + Uzbek commercial bank consortium member-ownership.

Regulators: Central Bank of Uzbekistan CBU.

Technical integration

UPay mobile app (iOS + Android) + uzcard.uz online + UZCARD POS + ATM network across Uzbekistan (~25M+ UZCARD cards issued) + UZCARD-branded debit + credit cards by all Uzbek commercial banks; UZCARD national card scheme processing + EMVCo QRCPS QR payments + Uzbek Som UZS domestic transfers.

Implementations & partners

Major Uzbek banking + payments competitors: [[humo-uz]] (HUMO Uzbek national interbank payment processing system + card scheme; Central Bank of Uzbekistan CBU + Uzbek government-aligned).

Uzbek commercial bank consortium: [[asaka-bank]] (Asakabank Uzbekistan) + [[nbu-uzbekistan]] (National Bank of Uzbekistan NBU) + [[hamkorbank]] (Hamkorbank Uzbekistan) + [[ipoteka-bank-uz]] (Ipoteka Bank Uzbekistan) + [[kapitalbank-uz]] (Kapitalbank Uzbekistan).

Regulators: Central Bank of Uzbekistan CBU.

Status

Active, Uzbek national interbank payment processing system + card scheme + Central Bank of Uzbekistan CBU + Uzbek government-aligned + Uzbekistan's primary national payment processing switch + card scheme + ~25M+ UZCARD cards issued [1, 2].

Sources

1 UZCARD — official
2 UZCARD — Wikipedia
uz-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/UZ-uzbekistan.md

Source

Biography extracted from uzcard.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.