{"id":79311,"date":"2014-09-09T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T10:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2014\/09\/09\/241415\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:13:20","slug":"central-banks-says-card-transactions-reach-297-9bln-in-armenia-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2014\/09\/09\/79311\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Banks says card transactions reach 297.9bln in Armenia in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 9. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Total volume of all card transactions in Armenia amounted to 297.9bln drams in the second quarter of this year, a 12% increase against the same period of 2013, the central bank reports on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Number of card transactions in the period totaled 6,129,235 (22% increase).<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,896,379 transactions were effected using local ArCa cards, worth 82.5bln drams. It is an increase of 22% compared to the second quarter of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Card transactions with VISA rose by 0.11% to 137.2bln drams; the number of these transactions was 2,665074 in the period.<\/p>\n<p>MasterCard was used in 1,220,032 transactions worth a total of 58 bln drams in the period (39.9% increase).<\/p>\n<p>Other international plastic cards were used in a total of 347,750 transactions worth 20.2 bln drams, a 5.4% increase compared to Q2 the year before.<\/p>\n<p>According to the central bank, a total of 1,628,644 cards were in circulation in the period (10.3% increase), including 566,792 ArCa cards (3.9% increase), 702,150 VISA (18.2% increase), 314,564 MasterCards (6.3% growth) and 45,138 other cards (9.7% growth).<\/p>\n<p>According to the central bank, a total of 1,628,644 cards were in circulation in the period (10.3% increase), including 566,792 ArCa cards (3.9% increase), 702,150 VISA (18.2% increase), 314,564 MasterCards (6.3% growth) and 45,138 other cards (9.7% growth).<\/p>\n<p>Card issuance and servicing is provided by 19 commercial banks out of 21 operating in Armenia. Nineteen commercial banks are members of uniform ArCa payment system. ($1=409.7drams).\u00a0 &#8211;0\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total volume of all card transactions in Armenia amounted to 297.9bln drams in the second quarter of this year, a 12% increase against the same period of 2013, the central bank reports on its website<\/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":[12139,9216],"tags":[12321,13372,12274],"class_list":{"0":"post-79311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-cards","10":"tag-quarter","11":"tag-transactions"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79311","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=79311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79311\/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=79311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}