There has been a rapid expansion in the business volume of ICBC Global Travel Credit Card (the “Card”), which was tailor-made by ICBC for overseas business travelers. By the end of February, 12.5 million cards had been issued, with a cumulative consumption amount reaching RMB240 billion, making it the business travel credit card with the largest issuance scale in China. Meanwhile, ICBC also upgraded the benefits of cardholders, who would be able to enjoy richer experience of business and leisure trips.

An ICBC official said that the upgrading not only improved the end demands of the traditional business travelers for travels, but also continuously extended the individualized benefits for emerging young travelers, promoting consumption upgrading and benefiting the public with more distinctive financial services. The upgraded benefit system of the Card, based on the "I-GO GLOBAL" platform benefits of ICBC credit cards, consists of ten carefully chosen business travel categories, namely hotels, airlines, visas, overseas taxi calls, airport VIP and parking, online cross-border shopping, overseas shopping, overseas WiFi, education for studying abroad and quality life, and nearly 50 popular benefits, which include paying 2 nights for 3 nights at five-star hotels at home and abroad, buying one and getting one free for air tickets, 50% off for the tickets to Meng Jinghui Drama Studio and discounts for the tickets to several skiing parks in Japan.

In daily use, the Card supports 10 types of foreign currencies, namely, USD, EUR, HKD, GBP, JPY, SGD, CAD, AUD, CHF and NZD, with "zero currency exchange fee". No matter in what currencies that the cardholders consume locally after going abroad, the system is able to automatically charge from the corresponding foreign currency accounts according to the currencies of the transactions without the need of paying extra exchange fees. Meanwhile, as a multi-currency chip card, the Card adopts the general PBOC standard in China and the international EMV chip medium, which can further improve the security of customers' domestic and overseas mobile payment.