{"id":437887,"date":"2011-06-08T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/08\/rwanda-third-country-on-continent-to-produce-atm-cards\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T06:01:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T06:01:22","slug":"rwanda-third-country-on-continent-to-produce-atm-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/rwanda-third-country-on-continent-to-produce-atm-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda – Third Country on Continent to Produce ATM Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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East African Business Week<\/a> (Kampala)<\/p>\n

6 June 2011<\/p>\n

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Kigali, Rwanda \u2014 The production of visa chip cards in Rwanda has gained momentum with SIMTEL hinting they are in the final stages of the project.<\/p>\n

“We are in talks with banks,”Sigrid Bruch, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) SIMTEL said.<\/p>\n

SIMTEL a consortium owned by both government and the private sector which is operating the national payment system in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

The system helps inter-bank (Automatic Teller Machine) ATM services connectivity.<\/p>\n

With the system, ATM card holders can withdraw money and access other services at any ATM installed at any bank.<\/p>\n

It is hoped that manufacturing cards locally will reduce what players call “the long and unacceptable delivery time of the Visa cards which takes months.”<\/p>\n

To get an ATM card in Rwanda, it may take a minimum of 3-4 months sometimes stretching to 6 months. These ATMs can only perform withdrawals and balance enquiries.<\/p>\n

The move will also deepen e-banking services and make Rwanda a regional financial hub.<\/p>\n

The talks with banks comes shortly after SIMTEL installed the equipment for manufacturing the cards in the country.<\/p>\n

Bruch could not divulge when the production starts saying it cannot be discussed on phone.<\/p>\n

East African Business Week has, however, learnt that Visa International is still auditing the country’s capacity to produce the cards without leaving loopholes that could be exploited to encourage e-banking fraud.<\/p>\n

“SIMTEL is still undergoing a series of certification from Visa International,” a well placed source in National Bank of Rwanda who asked not to be named said.<\/p>\n

Despite the rigorous audits Rwanda has been subjected to, Police records indicate the country has no serious e-banking fraud cases partly the reason for choosing the chip technology.<\/p>\n

The chip card is much more secure than a magnetic strip card.<\/p>\n

Bank crime records show countries using the Magnetic Strip Cards (commonly known as Magstripe Cards) are prone to e-banking fraud.<\/p>\n

Repositioning SIMTEL to play a leading role in Rwanda’s financial sector comes after African Development Corporation IT and Payment Solution (ADCIT&PS) bought a 70 percent stake in SIMTEL.<\/p>\n

Currently eight banks are automated; connected to a network of 27 ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) and one hundred fifty Points of Sale (PoS) terminals, of which 100 are for domestic use and fifty are international, PoS terminals.<\/p>\n

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