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V PAY Debit Cards

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V PAY is an international debit card that provides greater safety and security of your payments, which are guaranteed by the new international standard for safety of payment cards – this new technology "Chip and PIN”, introduced across Europe.

V PAY debit card shall be issued without requirement of irreducible balance and they can perform transactions on ATM or POS terminal device with introduced EMV (chip) standard.

Operations you can perform via V PAY card are:

  • shopping and payments in restaurants, hotels, shops and other commercial outlets in Bulgaria and abroad;
  • withdraw money from an ATM anywhere in Bulgaria and Europe, where the EMV (chip) standard is introduced;
  • to complete transactions;
  • to issue additional debit cards to the primary one.

IMPORTANT:

  • V PAY is a product developed entirely for the European market. For payment and withdrawal outside Europe use other card products of First Investment Bank.
  • Currently, V PAY debit cards could not be used for online payments.

Why V PAY?

Widespread Card
V PAY cards are adopted across Europe by over 5 million POS terminals and ATM 265 000, as business establishments receiving this type of cards is constantly increasing.

Maximum protection
V PAY card contains information about the cardholder and the card only on the chip. It has no information saved in the magnetic tape on the back of the card that can be copied or falsified. Thus, by using only the latest technology "Chip and PIN” is reached double protection for the card: the chip protects all data and excludes the possibility of unauthorized access to resources, as the identification through PIN when drawing money or making payment to traders reduces the risk of fraud to a minimum.

International Standard
V PAY cards may be used in all retail outlets and ATMs across Europe and everywhere they always take the same safely.

Why choose V PAY debit card by First Investment Bank?

  • Security of transactions - no data on magnetic tape;
  • Free issue and maintenance of the card;
  • No fee on payment of POS terminal;
  • Opportunity to select the currency of your card account - you can select the currency of your account depending on the currency of your income or the area of your travel;
  • Possibility to use the V PAY as credit card - if you receive your monthly income to account with V PAY card, FIB can grant overdraft facilities up to 5 of your net wages. This will allow you to use the amount as loan from the Bank against only collateral  - your future income.

Parameters of the card:

Account currency

BGN, EUR, USD, GBP, CHF

Term of validity

3 years

Interest rate on card account

as per Interest Rates Bulletin of Fibank

Type of cards
  • Primary - issued to an individual, the account holder;
  • Additional - issued by order of the account holder of the primary card and it can benefit family members or close individuals to the holder.

 

 


Contact Centre


bank (2265)
accessible via mobile and fixed telephones

0800 11 011
only for subscribers for VIVACOM fixed services (free of charge)

+359 700 19 599
accessible outside Bulgaria

Virtual
Banking Branch

 e-fibank.bg

Contact phones
in case of lost or stolen
debit or credit card:

  • (+ 359 2) 81 71 143
  • (+ 359 2) 81 71 142
  • (+ 359) 888 68 10 10
  • 0800 12 012 (accessible 24 hours a day, in Bulgaria)
    only for subscribers for VIVACOM fixed services (free of charge)

Payment limits concerning VISA Electron/V PAY debit cards

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