VTB Online can now be used for money transfers to holders of Visa, Mastercard and UnionPay cards in more than 100 countries around the world. Money is credited to the account instantly, the fee is up to 1.5 % of the transfer amount, the bank informed.
VTB customers can now make online transfers to Visa cards in 64 countries, including the EU, the CIS and Southeast Asia. Transfers to Mastercard cards are possible to 103 countries. The maximum amount per transfer is RUB 100,000.
Since the service of international card-to-card transfers to 20 countries was launched customers have made more than 10,000 transactions for a total amount of more than RUB 135 million. The largest number of transfers was made by VTB Online users to Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Georgia.
VTB Group is a Russian financial group comprising more than 20 credit and financial companies operating in all the key segments of the financial market. In the CIS, the group is active in Armenia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan. VTB's banks in Austria, Germany and France are operating as parts of the European sub-holding led by VTB Bank (Austria). Besides, the group has subsidiary and affiliate banks in the UK, Cyprus, Serbia, Georgia and Angola, as well as one VTB branch in China and India, two VTB Capital Plc branches in Singapore and Dubai.
IFRS net profit of VTB Group for January-April 2020 decreased by 19% year-on-year to RUB 40.7 billion.