The Vietnam Export-Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Vietnam Eximbank) has officially joined GlobePass, an alliance network of financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, to raise its prestige and the quality of service for both domestic and foreign customers.

Eximbank made the announcement in Ho Chi Minh City on March 8, saying it was the first bank in Vietnam to join such a network.

GlobePass membership will allow Eximbank to offer customers high-grade financial services and more utilities and help the government achieve the goal of phasing out payments in cash. The bank is now able to provide discount programmes for Vietnamese institutions that accept credit cards.

GlobalPass credit-card holders will enjoy privileges such as discounts, coupons, and gifts at the alliance network’s 277 merchants in 11 countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand,  Indonesia and Vietnam.

GlobePass, which now has over 100 million cardholders with cards issued from 12 member banks in the above-said countries and territories, aims to boost cooperation among global financial institutions.

Eximbank has 34 merchants that have offered 42 coupons./.