In terms of value, card transactions in January fell by 7.9% from a month earlier but jumped six times on the year to 6.921 billion denars ($166.8 million/ 112.4 million euro), according to the country's central bank, NBRM.
Details follow:
January’08 | December’07 | November’07 | January’07 | |
TOTAL CARDS | 783,648 | 716,611 | 690,998 | 448,763 |
-DEBIT | 386,008 | 353,551 | 341,805 | 231,382 |
-CREDIT | 184,700 | 168,849 | 163,466 | 118,683 |
-OTHER | 203,144 | 184,430 | 175,959 | 89,272 |
TRANSACTIONS | 1,667,344 | 1,853,920 | 1,580,020 | 623,668 |
DOMESTIC VALUE (mln denars) | 6,921 | 7,522 | 6,231 | 1,761 |
TOTAL VALUE (mln denars) | 6,252.9 | 7,693.6 | 6,483.6 | 2,386.1 |
POS TERMINALS | 23,924 | 14,056 | 13,014 | 10,626 |
ATMs | 564 | 529 | 519 | 355 |
The American Express, CaSys, Diners, Diners Club, MasterCard, Private, ProCredit, Sileks Kartica, STBB kartica, TTK Kartica and Visa card brands are accepted in Macedonia.
(1 euro = 61.5694 Macedonian denars)