UZCARD

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, Uzbekistan report}.

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 Uzbekistan (HUMO Uzbek national interbank payment processing system + card scheme; Central Bank of Uzbekistan CBU + Uzbek government-aligned).

Uzbek commercial bank consortium: Asaka Bank (Uzbekistan) (Asakabank Uzbekistan) + National Bank of Uzbekistan (NBU) (National Bank of Uzbekistan NBU) + Hamkorbank Uzbekistan (Hamkorbank Uzbekistan) + Ipoteka Bank Uzbekistan (Ipoteka Bank Uzbekistan) + Kapitalbank Uzbekistan (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
• ^{Uzbekistan report} In-corpus: reports/countries/UZ-uzbekistan.md

Source

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