{"id":249473,"date":"2020-08-10T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2020\/08\/10\/249473\/"},"modified":"2020-08-10T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:35:34","slug":"the-number-of-non-cash-transactions-in-first-half-of-2020-exceed-cash-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2020\/08\/10\/249473\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of non-cash transactions in first half of 2020 exceed cash ones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, August 10. \/ ARKA \/. <\/strong>The number of\u00a0\u00a0transactions made in Armenia in the first half of 2020 by using banking cards grew\u00a0\u00a0by 22.8% compared to the first half of 2019, Executive Director of the Union of Banks of Armenia (UBA) Seyran Sargsyan said at a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, some 19.7 million transactions were made using bank cards during this period and for the first time the number of non-cash transactions exceeded the number of cash ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of volume, non-cash payments accounted for 26% of the total volume of transactions. At the same time, in the first half of the year, the volume of cash transactions&nbsp;&nbsp;amounted to 420.7 billion drams, which is 3.3% or 14.3 billion drams less than in the same period in 2019. The volume of non-cash transactions increased by 25.4% or 35.4 billion drams&nbsp;&nbsp;to 174.4 billion drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seyran Sargsyan said also&nbsp;&nbsp;that the number of payment terminals increased by 10.6%. &#8220;This means that those outlets that want to accept cards as means of payment also show interest, having installed another 1,183 payment terminals,&#8221; he said. ($ 1 &#8211; 485.00 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of  transactions made in Armenia in the first half of 2020 by using banking cards grew  by 22.8% compared to the first half of 2019, Executive Director of the Union of Banks of Armenia (UBA) Seyran Sargsyan said at a press conference on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,15875,12274],"class_list":{"0":"post-249473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-non-cash-3","11":"tag-transactions"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}