First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced the launch of the Verve Global Card.

In partnership with Verve International (Interswitch Group) and Discover Financial Services, the launch took place at Times Square, New York City, United States on August 12.

The Verve Global Card, an introduction by Verve International to FirstBank, is a new entry to the array of card products offered by FirstBank to its customers.

The card is an enhancement to the existing Verve Debit card with exclusive capacity for domestic and cross border transactions across all channels, Igbere TV reports.

The card can be linked to savings & current accounts, with a “safetoken” extra protection for web-based transactions.

Speaking on the launch, Deputy Managing Director, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Gbenga Shobo said: “In partnership with Verve International, we are pleased to launch the Verve Global Card as it reinforces our commitment to putting our customers first with innovative and state of the art financial products and services that promote seamless transactions regardless of where they are across the globe.”

He added: “I enjoin every FirstBank customer and the general public to visit the nearest FirstBank branch and request for the card to enjoy seamless cashless transactions.”

The first transaction of the Verve Global Card was carried out by Mr Shobo at Swarovski Shop located in Times Square.

Also in attendance at the event were Group Executive, eBusiness and Retail Products, Chuma Ezirim; Head, Card & Messaging Business, Folasade Femi-Lawal; Interswitch Group’s Founder/GMD, Mitchell Elegbe; and Divisional CEO, Verve, Mike Ogbalu.

Others were Discover Financial Services’ Senior Vice President, Payment Services, Joseph Hurley; Executive Vice President, Payment Services, Diane Offereins, among others.

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Lalasticlala Mynd44 Dominique

All these local banks and their strange cards that are can fail at any time, while doing cross-border transactions, in a foreign country.

A few years back, GTB's MasterCard issued in Nigeria, was not accepted in Ghana, for their local transactions. Yet they were telling everyone that it was accepted internationally.

It took a long while before they could fix the glitches. In the meantime, many of their clients were stranded and embarrassed abroad, due to the poor performance of the card.

UBA too, did the same thing with their cards. Using their cards abroad, was guaranteed to launch the user into international embarrassment.

Now, First Bank has launched a card that is likely to do the same. Many business owners have learnt the hard way, not to rely on locally issued cards for international transactions, no matter how colourful their adverts may be.

What's d requirements for dis card?