{"id":56855,"date":"2013-06-25T11:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T11:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/06\/25\/238758\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:05:31","slug":"card-transactions-amounted-to-225-6bln-drams-in-armenia-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/06\/25\/56855\/","title":{"rendered":"Card transactions amounted to 225.6bln drams in Armenia in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, June 25. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Volume of all card transactions totalled 225.6 billion drams in the first quarter of 2013, a 25.5% increase against the same period of the year before, says the quarterly bulletin of Armenia\u2019s Central Bank for Q1.<\/p>\n<p>Non-cash transactions constituted 9.1% of the overall volume of card transactions and amounted to a total of about 20.6 billion drams, an increase of 15.3% compared to Q1 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Online transactions amounted to 4.8 billion drams in the period, including 0.8bln drams in e-commerce and 3.9bln drams in card-to-card transactions.<\/p>\n<p>In the period, a total of 1,442,884 transactions were effected via local ArCa cards for a total of 56 billion drams. It is a reduction of 5% or 3.2 billion drams compared to the same period of last year; number of transactions dropped by 86,000 or 6%.<\/p>\n<p>Number of VISA international card transactions was 1,835,536; the total amount was 117.7 billion drams in the period, an increase of 55% or 41.8bln drams.<\/p>\n<p>MasterCard transactions amounted to a total of 35.8 billion drams (increase of 17% or 5.2bln) ; the number of these transactions was 830,301 in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Other international card transactions (254,297) amounted to 16bln drams, increase of 11% or 1.6bln drams compared to Q1 2012.<\/p>\n<p>There were a total of 1.4 million cards in circulation as of the end of the reporting period, an increase of 5% against Q4 2012.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Central Bank, number of local ArCa cards grew by 5% to 518,000 by the end of Q1 against Q4 2012. At the same time, number of international cards rose by 5% to 873,000, including 543,000 VISA cards (4% increase) and 283,000 MasterCards (7% increase).<\/p>\n<p>As of the end of Q4 2012, out of 21 Armenian commercial banks, 19 are members of united ArCa payment system and offer plastic card services to their clients. ($1=411.64drams).\u20130&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume of all card transactions totalled 225.6 billion drams in the first quarter of 2013, a 25.5% increase against the same period of the year before, says the quarterly bulletin of Armenia\u2019s Central Bank for Q1<\/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":[15837,12321,12212,586],"class_list":{"0":"post-56855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-armenia-2","9":"tag-cards","10":"tag-drams","11":"tag-586"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56855","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=56855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}