Romanian Commercial Bank to launch smart cards in early April
{{date|March 22, 2005}}
Starting from April 4, the Romanian Commercial Bank (''Banca Comercială Română'', or BCR), the country's largest bank, will launch a smart card system for all its ATM network as well as its [[:w:POS|point-of-sale]] terminals in more than 5,000 stores across [[:w:Romania|Romania]]. While the system will be enabled to work with these cards from April, the smart cards themselves will only be issued to account holders in the second half of the year.

[[:w:smart card|Smart cards]] in a banking context are cards which contain information on a chip and can permit greater security and control of transactions. BCR is the first Romanian bank to use this technology.

==References==
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url=http://daily-news.ro/article_detail.php?idarticle=8081|
author=Cristiana Tudor|
title=Smart cards on BCR system next week|
pub=Bucharest Daily News|
date=March 22, 2005}}

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Starting from April 4, the Romanian Commercial Bank (Banca Comercială Română, or BCR), the country's largest bank, will launch a smart card system for all its ATM network as well as its point-of-sale terminals in more than 5,000 stores across Romania. While the system will be enabled to work with these cards from April, the smart cards themselves will only be issued to account holders in the second half of the year.

Smart cards in a banking context are cards which contain information on a chip and can permit greater security and control of transactions. BCR is the first Romanian bank to use this technology.
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