Qi Card


The Qi Card is an Iraqi debit card and is the national credit card of Iraq. It is pronounced as 'key', and it is the reversed form of iq, the ISO 3166 code for Iraq.

History

Iraq's two biggest state-owned banks, Rafidain Bank and Rasheed Bank, together with the have established a company called International Smart Card, which has developed a national credit card called 'Qi Card'. The card is issued since 2008. According to the company's website: 'after less than two years of the initial launch of the Qi card solution, we have hit 1.6 million cardholder with the potential to issue 2 million cards by the end of 2010, issuing about 100,000 card monthly is a testament to the huge success of the Qi card solution. Parallel to this will be the expansion into retail stores through a network of points of sales of about 30,000 units by 2015.
QI card is similar to other credit cards recognized worldwide with essential difference that the smart card deals with balances without direct contact with the server which is called to facilitate business in regions of no good telecommunication networks.

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