Smartlink Card Service Joint Stock Co and BanknetVN recently adopted four new member banks including Southern Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Southern Bank), Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank (TienPhongBank), Viet A Commercial Joint Stock Bank (VietABank) and Global Petro Commercial Joint Stock Bank (GP.Bank).

Thus, the total number of banks belonging to the Smartlink and BanknetVN system reached eight.

After finishing the connection, nearly 70,000 ATM cards of four banks will be accepted at 8,000 ATM machines and over 16,000 POS of these two systems, seven fold increase on ATM machines and over three time increase on POS of four banks.

At the same time, Smartlink and BanknetVN also completed linking for Ocean Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Oceanbank). Linking to Smartlink, 3,000 card owners of Oceanbank and card owners of other banks in the BanknetVN system namely Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (Bidv), Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam (Agribank), Saigon Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Saigonbank), and Vietnam Commercial Joint Stock Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) can use their cards at ATM machines of eight member banks in Smartlink card alliance namely Vietnam Commercial Joint Stock Bank for Foreign Trade (Vietcombank-VCB), Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint-Stock Bank (Techcombank), Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), Nam Viet Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Navibank), GP Bank, VietABank, TienPhongBank and Southern Bank.