KATHMANDU: Himalayan Bank Ltd (HBL), the only bank in the Nepali banking industry providing a wide range of credit, debit and pre-paid cards of different international brands, has now started accepting Discover, Diners Club International and network alliance cards under Discover Global Network (DGN), as per a press release.
With the successful collaboration between HBL and DGN, cardholders will have more options to make payment at merchant locations in Nepal.
It offers HBL's merchants a share of more than $500 billion annually in global spend opportunity and access to over 280 million plus global cardholders.
HBL has now enabled all POS terminals at various hotels, restaurants, retail stores at various tourist attractions such as Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, Lumbini and so on within Nepal.
A version of this article appears in the print on November 23, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.