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        "msgid": "mastercard-records-growth-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-01-06 00:00:00",
        "title": "MasterCard records growth",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "MasterCard records growth JAKARTA (JP): MasterCard International announced on Wednesday that the number of people holding its Maestro\/Cirrus debit card had grown by 73 percent to 7.9 million in 1999, up from 4.6 million in 1998. Country manager for MasterCard International in Indonesia Bambang Gunawan said the high growth was driven particularly by extended commitments to the card by some major local banks, including Bank Negara Indonesia, Bank Central Asia and Bank International Indonesia.",
        "content": "<p>MasterCard records growth<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): MasterCard International announced on Wednesday<br>\nthat the number of people holding its Maestro\/Cirrus debit card<br>\nhad grown by 73 percent to 7.9 million in 1999, up from 4.6<br>\nmillion in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Country manager for MasterCard International in Indonesia<br>\nBambang Gunawan said the high growth was driven particularly by<br>\nextended commitments to the card by some major local banks,<br>\nincluding Bank Negara Indonesia, Bank Central Asia and Bank<br>\nInternational Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\"Consumers are attracted to Maestro\/Cirrus because it offers<br>\nsecurity protection not found in other debit card products,\" he<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced that Lippo Bank had chosen to stop<br>\nissuing Maestro\/Cirrus cards, shifting to a signature-based<br>\nproduct for point-of-sale functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The company earlier predicted transaction values using Maestro<br>\ndebit cards to surge sevenfold in 1999 from US$1 billion in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Maestro\/Cirrus debit cards can be used at over 479,000<br>\nautomated teller machines and over four million point of sale<br>\nterminals worldwide. (cst)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/mastercard-records-growth-1447893297",
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