{"id":36181,"date":"2012-04-19T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/04\/19\/235354\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:56:48","slug":"armenian-card-company-issues-more-than-38400-cards-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/04\/19\/36181\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Card company issues more than 38,400 cards in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 19. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Armenia\u2019s ArCa payment system issued 38,444 plastic cards in March 2012 \u2013 21.6% year-on year growth, the company\u2019s press office reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The system issued 19,688 ArCa cards in March 2012 (70.4% year-on-year increase), 7,639 Visa cards (26.2% decrease) and 11,217 MasterCards (13.9% growth).<\/p>\n<p>The total number of active cards reached 817,600 in March 2012 ensuring 34.2% growth, compared with the same month a year earlier.<br \/>\nThe number of cards on which transactions had been effected was 561,533 in March 2012 against 409,719 in March 2011. Of them, 303,199 were ArCa cards (25.6% year-on-year growth), 138,073 Visa cards (27.5% growth) and 120,261 Master Cards (100.3% increase).<\/p>\n<p>The share of plastic cards on which deals had been effected was 69%.<br \/>\nArmenian Card CJSC was established on March 16, 2000 as national payment system.<br \/>\nNow 19 or 21 commercial banks of Armenia are members of ArCa system.<br \/>\nVarious ArCa-based products are circulating now. They are ArCa Debit, ArCa Classic, ArCa Gold, ArCa Business, ArCa Affinity, ArCa Co-branded, ArCa Platinum and ArCa pension cards.<\/p>\n<p>The company is a full member of Master Card Europe international payment system. It also process cards of VISA and American Express (Third Party Processor). ($1 \u2013 AMD 393). -0&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s ArCa payment system issued 38,444 plastic cards in March 2012<\/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":[9214,9216],"tags":[15782,15837,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-36181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arca-2","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-308"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181","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=36181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}