URSA Bank signed an acquiring agreement with Chudodom chain stores. The chain’s thirteen stores based in Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, and Yekaterinburg are going to get thirty-one POS terminals that will handle cards like Visa Int., MasterCard Int., and Gold Crown, the bank’s press officer reports.


Incidentally, URSA Bank started processing bank cards in Sibvez chain stores (forty-eight outlets in Siberian Federal District) and Jewelry 585 chain stores (forty-one outlets in Siberian Federal District) in November 2007.


Chudodom owns twenty-five retail outlets selling a range of household products in Barnaul, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Kemerovo, Orenburg, Yekaterinburg, Blagoveshchensk, and other cities in Siberia, the Urals, and the Far East. The area of the supermarkets comes to 1,000-2,500 square meters, each of them offering between 10,000 and 15,000 household items like glassware, textiles, consumer electronics, and toys.


The chain is being developed by a Novosibirsk-based Business Components Company.