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Havana.
December 24, 2004 |
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Swiss
company inaugurates a website for sending money to
Cuba
THE Swiss AWS Technologies Company ( http://www.aws-transaction.com)
has opened a website for sending money to Cuba which,
among its competitive advantages offers greater
rapidity and efficiency in the service.
The Internet site of the
www.aws-transaction.com
enterprise highlights that this option for sending
remittances to Cuba has a client personalized
service and the support of Cuban enterprises with
experience and strength in the sector.
Through the network any user can
send money to family members and friends on the
island by using a credit card. The money is handed
over from offices set up in all the country’s
provinces and can be drawn in the currency that the
beneficiary chooses: U.S. dollars or Cuban
convertible pesos.
Clients in Cuba can also use a
rechargeable debit card, valid in all commercial and
banking outlets operating in hard currency on the
island.
According to the
www.cubasi.cu
http://www.cubasi.cu
website, which quoted Matthias Zehnder, AWS
Technologies executive director, the objective of
the enterprise is to consolidate this option as one
of the main ways of sending money to Cuba.
Remittances to the island have great
potential but have been limited by the restrictions
imposed on Cuba by the U.S. government and which
also prejudice the companies providing this service.
Transactions via
www.aws-transaction.com
http://www.aws-transaction.com
have exclusive tools for tracking the remittances,
thus guaranteeing their security, Zehnder explained.
For example, when the on line system is used for the
first time, the client must send a faxed copy of his/her
passport and a signed letter stating that s/he
agrees the payment, as Swiss legislation requires
for this type of Internet service.
The Swiss service will operate and
bill their Internet clients in euros and is not
responsible for the actions of persons in the United
States who use this platform to send more than $300
per quarter to their families, or violate any other
regulation established in the U.S. blockade
legislation against the island.
AWS Technologies is a Swiss company
specializing in information technology applications
for clients in Latin America, including Cubans. (AIN) |
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