Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Visa, together with Orient Finans Bank and TEZCARD, announced expansion of coverage of non-cash payments in public transport in Uzbekistan. Now payment for travel with contactless Visa cards has become available to residents and guests of the city of Ferghana.

Holders of contactless Visa cards of any bank can quickly and conveniently pay their fare in 38 city buses of Ferghana. To do this, simply attach your Visa card to the TEZCARD validator terminal.

In May 2019, Visa, TEZCARD and Orient Finans Bank began to accept banking cards in the public transport of Samarkand and this project is a continuation of cooperation between the companies.

“Visa has a global expertise in the implementation of innovative solutions to urban services and is a reliable partner of city authorities for the development of urban infrastructure. Today, after Samarkand, residents and guests of Ferghana will be able to pay for transport fares quickly and conveniently using contactless Visa bank cards,” Aliya Chynybayeva, General Manager of Visa in Central Asia, commented. “We are confident that innovative Visa transport payment technologies will make the journey more comfortable for the citizens, as well as contribute to the creation of a safe and convenient fare payment system.”

“We are very pleased with the new stage of our cooperation with Visa, thanks to which TEZCARD users in the next city of Uzbekistan received additional amenities and opportunities. We are confident that the launch of such a unique opportunity in Ferghana will be an additional incentive for the development of the tourist potential of this beautiful city,” Aziz Ahmedov, director of TEZCARD, said.

“We are very pleased to participate in such projects, learn from the experience of global players in the payment solutions market, create a payment infrastructure more convenient for residents and guests of Uzbekistan. We understand and see that in the very near future, payments by a contactless method will be used many times more often than cash payments, due to ease of use and speed of the operation. We hope for further territorial expansion of contactless payment points in public transport and not only,” Sherzod Tuyboev, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Orient Finance Bank, said.