{"id":250504,"date":"2022-08-26T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2022\/08\/26\/250504\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T18:00:56","slug":"volume-of-transactions-made-by-armenian-banks-cards-abroad-almost-doubled-in-first-half-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2022\/08\/26\/250504\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume of transactions made by Armenian banks\u2019 cards abroad almost doubled in first half of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, August 26. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Banking cards issued by Armenia-based banks were used to make 6,139,854 transactions abroad in the first half of 2022, up 78.2% from the same time span of 2021, according to the Union of Banks of Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of money, these transactions amounted to&nbsp;&nbsp;158. 6 billion drams, an increase of 98.7% from the first six months of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of transactions made by these cards in Armenia grew by 38.4% to 71,343,502 worth a total of 1.7 trillion drams, up 23, 84% from the first half of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of transactions made in Armenia with foreign-issued cards also grew by 30.1% to 3,523,467 worth 132.9 bln drams, up 8.4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, according to the Union of Banks of Armenia, in the first half of 2022 the number of issued payment cards rose by 3.5% to 2,798,236. Compared to 2011, their number surged by 186.2%. ($1 &#8211; 404.82 AMD) -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking cards issued by Armenia-based banks were used to make 6,139,854 transactions abroad in the first half of 2022, up 78.2% from the same time span of 2021, according to the Union of Banks of Armenia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15381,12947],"class_list":{"0":"post-250504","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-15381","10":"tag-securities-transactions"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250504","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=250504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}