At the end of an agreement signed in Brussels between the French popular banks and their European counterparts, the user will now be able to withdraw money in all European countries. The president of the Crédit populaire de France presents the characteristics of this new service with a card called the intercarte. The latter will not replace the credit card already present.
The credit card has been entering France for a few months. Banque Populaire travelled to Provence to present its advantages to consumers and merchants.
Nait Hamon, restaurateur, talks about the interest for him to be paid by card by his customers. It is a guaranteed and very useful payment method for foreign tourists. However, it has a 7% commission on the bills. . [Zoom out] "diner’s club" label. [Panoramic view] credit card, manipulated by employee [American plan] employee had computer screen, arranging disks. [Panoramic view] hand devices handling credit cards.
A jeweler explains the credit card interest, new payment system. It explains the differences, for the merchant and then for the consumer, between foreign cards, blue cards and intercards.
Report on the upcoming use of the smart card. The new card is expected to allow for far more diverse payments than previous ones, such as its use in phone booths. Paul BELLANGER, representative of the banks, evokes the potential of these cards which, in the end, can be used on a large scale. Security systems are also developing.