AREQUIPA, Peru – The Financiera Cimex SA (FINCIMEX) of the regime on the Island announced this weekend that its clients will be able to check the balance of the Clásica and AIS cards through the EnZona payment gateway.
A report of state media Cubadebate indicates that the novelty was announced at the recent Havana International Fair (FIHAV 2024) and was developed thanks to the alliance established with Xetid.
According to Dobranchy Jiménez Quesada, head of the Banking Technology Center of that company, the aim was to make the registration of cards in EnZona “as simple as possible, respecting international standards.”
For January of next year, the rest of the options that are normally carried out virtually on the payment platform (i.e. transfers, online payments, among others) are scheduled to be enabled, both for the Classic card and for AIS.
“Although initially the option to check balances will be available only through EnZona, the conditions for integration would already be created from ETECSA with Xetid to enable these financial products on Transfermóvil. The idea is to close the cycle with EnZona and then seek interoperability between payment systems,” said Yamil Hernández, general manager of FINCIMEX.
Another novelty that comes within the framework of the 30th anniversary of the Castro financial company is the expansion of the sales and recharge network of the Classic card to all the branches of the International Financial Bank on the Island and the announcement that both CIMEX and Caribe will add businesses to the marketing network of this product.
According to FINCIMEX executives, since last March more than 70,000 cards of this type have been marketed through the management of CADECA and are mainly used for the retail commercial network where the Cuban regime forces the people to buy in USD, including fuel.
Although citizens on the Island do not receive salaries in dollars, the economic policies of the dictatorship increasingly require them depend on foreign currencies living.
