{"id":30972,"date":"2011-12-12T17:17:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2011\/12\/12\/234386\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:54:18","slug":"arca-armenian-payment-system-issues-35799-plastic-cards-in-november-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2011\/12\/12\/30972\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCA Armenian Payment System Issues 35,799 Plastic Cards In November 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 12. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>ArCa Armenian payment system issued 35,799 plastic cards in November 2011 \u2013 78.1% year-on-year growth, the company\u2019s press office reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Of them, 15,567 were ARCa cards (134.7% year-on-year increase), 9,167 Visa cards (13.7% increase) and 11,065 MasterCard cards (104.8% growth) in November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The number of active cards for transactions exceeded 746,000 in November \u2013 34.6% year-on-year growth.<\/p>\n<p>Transactions were effected on 433,424 cards in November 2011 against 364,135 in November 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Of them, 282,080 are ArCa cards (29.7% growth), 124,303 Visa cards (34.6%) and 96,104 MasterCard cards (76.9%).<\/p>\n<p>The cards on which transactions were effected made up 67% of the total number of active cards of all types in November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian Card CJSC was established on March 16, 2000 as national system of payments on plastic cards.<\/p>\n<p>Today 19 of Armenia\u2019s 21 commercial banks participate in ArCa payment system.<\/p>\n<p>There are various ArCa-based products \u2013 ArCa Debit, ArCa Classic, ArCa Gold, ArCa Business, ArCa Affinity, ArCa Co-branded, ArCa Platinum as well as ArCa pension cards.<\/p>\n<p>The company is a full member of MasterCard Europe international system. It also process VISA and American Express (Third Party Processor) cards. ($1 = AMD 382.67). \u20130\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArCa Armenian payment system issued 35,799 plastic cards in November 2011 \u2013 78.1% year-on-year growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,12139,9216],"tags":[15782,15837,12604,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-30972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-arca-2","10":"tag-armenia-2","11":"tag-card","12":"tag-308"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972","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=30972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}