Forget the gold, platinum or exclusive black credit card even – the new card to have is the diamond card.
Oil and gas reserves have made many industrialists in Kazakhstan very wealthy – and a new credit card named Diamond lets them show it.
Issued as a Mastercard by Kazkommertsbank the Diamond card has a 0.02 carat gem in it’s centre. The bank plans to issue around 1,000 of the cards at the rate of 30/month. The allocated credit limit will be $50,000 – that’s about $20,000 higher than upper credit limits on some platinum Mastercards. It’s not something new though as Dubai residents had a similar card last year.
Kazakhstan is now home to a new class of super-rich due to it’s plentiful reserves of oil and minerals. To many this contradicts their view of a country made famous by Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional character Borat.
