the Danske Bank and Nordea will also continue to offer its customers to use Visa/Dankort, which Jyske Bank recently chose to drop the issue of the.
It informs the banks on Friday.
Danske Bank has made an agreement with the betalingsselskabet Nets, which runs from the end of 2019, and five years forward, while Nordea, arise out, of the supports up on the Dankortet.
– The most important thing for us is that our customers can pay easily, safely and cheaply, and with this agreement we take in addition a joint responsibility to cooperate to further develop the Danish payment infrastructure for the benefit of Danish consumers and traders, says Jesper Nielsen, ceo of Danske Bank, in a press release.
in recent months, there has been great discussion about the Dankortets future, because the Jyske Bank has gone away from issuing Visa/Dankort.
instead, the bank will provide customers with two different cards – a debit and a visa card.
It has been seen as an attack on Dankortet, among other Consumer Think and the Danish business, who feared that more banks would follow suit.
They believe that many customers will drop a credit card, because it can only be used in Denmark.
At the Danish business call marketing director, Henrik Hyltoft it is very positive that the Danish Bank and Nordea undertake to Dankortet.
– It is a really good news. Dankortet is the cheapest payment system, as we know it today.
– the Alternative would have been the international debit card, and it would result in increased costs for the stores and ultimately consumers, he says.
Dankortet was introduced as a joint resolution of the banks in the beginning of the 1980s under the PBS.
It should give less cash and hence cost savings for banks and society.
the Fees on the use of the dankort is politically determined, and there can be more fees for the banks, if customers are using other cards.
trade and industry minister, Rasmus Jarlov (K) writes on Twitter that “Dankortet is saved”.
Benny Engelbrecht, finansordfører with the Social democrats, praises the Danish Bank’s decision.
– Welcome to Danske Bank exhibit the community spirit and support Dankortet, he writes on Twitter.
Jyske Bank has denied that the bank’s decision to drop the Visa/Dankort is an attack on Dankortet.
– In the same moment the customers shows that they do not need Dankortet, we have not map more. But the same applies for MasterCard and Visa.
– But we settle not Dankortet. It is the customers, that settles Dankortet, if it happens, said ceo Anders Dam to erhvervsmediet Finance in the beginning of January.
