Google is launching its Google Pay payment service in Uzbekistan, Marcin Krasuski, Google Cloud’s director of government affairs and public policy for Central and Eastern Europe, announced on October 19. A video of the announcement was published on the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Digital Technologies.
“I am very happy to announce that today Google is launching its GPay — Google Pay — service in Uzbekistan,” he said.
The announcement was made during a panel session on digital technologies in Samarkand, held as part of the C5+1 events involving Central Asian countries and the United States. Government officials and representatives of major companies are taking part in the session.
In late July, Jamshid Usmanov, head of the Central Bank’s payment systems development department, told Spot that Apple Pay and Google Pay could launch in Uzbekistan in the coming months. He said that following amendments to personal data legislation, the Central Bank had begun talks with Apple and Google, alongside commercial banks and the national payment systems Humo and Uzcard, and had started technical integration work.
Usmanov also noted that banks were working on card tokenisation. The regulator aims to enable users to add not only Visa and Mastercard cards but also cards issued through the national Humo and Uzcard payment systems to the services.
On March 26, the president signed a law abolishing the requirement to store all personal data on servers inside Uzbekistan. The requirement remains in place for biometric and genetic data, as well as telecommunications subscribers' data. Other personal data may be processed abroad, subject to established conditions.
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