BGS Smartcards Systems of Austria named Pakhta Bank as its advanced partner and presented appropriate certificate to the bank.

BGS Smartcards Systems is largest company in the world on use of plastic cards technologies. The company offers smart card-based state-of-the-art payment systems under the brand name DUET, which is used by the most of the Uzbek banks.

Pakhta Bank is one of the largest banks of Uzbekistan. The bank has issued some 260,000 plastic cards and installed 1,3000 terminals and 20 ATMs.

The bank said that some 3 billion soums deposited at plastic cards and turnover on cards reached 4 billion soums since the beginning of the year.