Myanmar Payment Union Myanmar Payment Union Myanmar Payment Union (MPU) is a Myanmar financial services corporation headquartered in Yangon, Myanmar. It provides bank card services and a major card scheme in Myanmar. MPU was founded on 15 September 2011 with total of 16 members from both state and privately owned banks, and expanded to 23 members as of 19 Jan 2017. When it first started, its purpose was to provide the ATM and POS (Point of Sale) switching services among the banks. MPU cards have been issued since 14 September 2012. As a result, all bank card holders can withdraw and check their
History of the Jews in Myanmar nationalist Burmese government. One synagogue survives in Yangon, the capital, and in the 21st century, it attracts an increasing number of tourists. The first recorded Jew in the country was Solomon Gabirol, who served as a commander in the army of King Alaungpaya in the 18th century. But it was in the mid-19th century, during the British colonial period, that Jewish merchants from Iraq and India began establishing sizable communities in Rangoon and Mandalay. The Baghdadi Jews had emigrated from Iraq to escape persecution and being subject to pogroms; they comprised most of the immigrants. Cochin Jews and the Bene