{"id":75853,"date":"2014-05-19T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2014\/05\/19\/240826\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:11:29","slug":"armenian-bank-cards-used-to-make-257-16-billion-drams-worth-transactions-in-first-quarter-14-year-on-year-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2014\/05\/19\/75853\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian bank cards used to make 257.16 billion drams worth transactions in first quarter, 14% year-on-year increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 19. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> Plastic cards issued by Armenian banks were used in the first quarter of this year to make a total of 257.16 billion drams worth transactions, an increase of 14% compared with the same period in 2013, the Central Bank said in a statement, posted on its official website. It said the number of transactions grew by 21 percent to 5,282,968.<\/p>\n<p>Local ArCa payment cards were used to make 1,622,194 transactions worth 68 billion drams. This amount if compared with the first quarter of 2013 was 21.5% higher, while the number of transactions increased by 12.4%.<\/p>\n<p>International VISA cards were used to make 2,282,247 transactions worth 120.8 billion drams, a 2.7 percent increase from the year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>International MasterCard cards were used to make 1,074,909 transactions worth 50.9 billion drams, by 41.9 % more than in the first quarter of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Other international plastic cards were used to make 303,618 transactions worth 17.3 billion drams, 8.3% rise from the year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Central Bank data, some 1,591,433 cards (up 15 %) were active in the first quarter, including 564,933 ArCa cards (an increase of 9 %), 677,448 VISA cards (25% growth ) , 303,674 MasterCard cards, (an increase of 7 %) and 45,378 other cards (a 12% growth ) .<\/p>\n<p>Plastic cards are issued and serviced by 19 of 21 Armenia-based \u200b\u200bcommercial banks. These 19 banks are members of the single national payment system ArCa. ($ 1 &#8211; 413.83 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic cards issued by Armenian banks were used in the first quarter of this year to make a total of 257.16 billion drams worth transactions, an increase of 14% compared with the same period in 2013, the Central Bank said in a statement, posted on its official website. It said the number of transactions grew by 21 percent to 5,282,968<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12604,12345],"class_list":{"0":"post-75853","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-card","11":"tag-dram"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75853","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=75853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}