Bank card

Passengers, in addition to ATH.ENA Ticket or ATH.ENA Card, will be able to use a bank card

Bulgaria has embarked on a digitization journey by replacing traditional paper food vouchers with a plastic card, akin to a bank card, initiating this transformative move at the start of the year. This transition will involve a grace period until July, allowing issuance of both paper and electronic vouchers.

The long-awaited decision of the Competition Commission for banks is expected to bring a reduction in the charges that are incurred when withdrawing cash from an ATM of a different bank to the client's.

Although the reductions will not be horizontal, it is estimated that they will bring about some relief in said charges, in the order of 25-30%.

A Thessaloniki court has sentenced two people to ten years' imprisonment for their role in an ATM skimming operation in which the data of at least 665 bank cards were stolen.

Skimming is a way of stealing PINs and other information off credit and debit cards by rigging machines with hidden recording devices.

A mobile team of border police and customs officers seized a package of bank card sklimming devices transported by car to a country from Western Europe, the Ministry of Interior announced on 31st iof October, reports BNT. 

Nearly BGN 4 B have been spent with Bulgarian bank cards in 2015, showed the latest survey of a large card company.

Customs officers at Bulgaria's Sofia International Airport have discovered and seized about 50 skimming devices in courier parcels intended for shipping to destinations abroad.