Transactions come days after US removes Damascus from State Sponsors of Terrorism list, as the country seeks to reconnect with the global financial system
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DAMASCUS, Syria — Visa and Mastercard said they had carried out their first international card payments in Syria in more than a decade, days after Washington delisted the country as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Mastercard said in a statement that it and Qatar National Bank (QNB) Group “have processed Syria’s first international card payment in more than 15 years, marking an important milestone in the modernization of Syria’s payments ecosystem.”
