Barclays Partners With Chinese Card Issuer

Barclays Bank of Botswana has partnered with China’s largest card issuer, Union Pay International (UPI) to allow cardholders to transact at Barclays’ ATM’s and Point of Sale (POS) machines across different merchants and businesses.

China Union Pay or UPI is the largest card issuer in China and has issued over five billion cards there.

It is a card of choice for many Chinese nationals and other countries in Asia with on average at least one Chinese national owning one UPI card.

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Routine child vaccination imperative

The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...

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