{"id":33104,"date":"2006-01-24T22:55:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T14:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/01\/24\/standard-chartered-offers-overseas-card-for-chinese-travelers\/"},"modified":"2006-01-24T22:55:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T14:55:11","slug":"standard-chartered-offers-overseas-card-for-chinese-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/01\/24\/33104\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Chartered Offers Overseas Card For Chinese Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/standardchartered_logo_120x60.gif\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\">Standard Chartered, Visa International and Travelex PLC have together launched a prepaid card that Chinese can use abroad in the place of cash.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Easigo card, which the companies called an electronic traveler's check, is the first of its kind to be issued by a foreign bank on the Chinese mainland, where foreign banks aren't yet allowed to issue debit or credit cards, or even cash cards to their account holders.<\/p>\n<p>Local Chinese can pick up the card, which bears Standard Chartered Bank's name and the Visa logo, at Standard Chartered branches and put up to US$5,000 worth of funds on it for each trip abroad. The holder can then use the card overseas to pay for goods and services through Visa's network, or to get cash from automatic teller machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Chartered, Visa International and Travelex PLC have together launched a prepaid card that Chinese can use abroad in the place of cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}