Moldovan Jan-Sept Bank Card Transactions Value Rises 9.4% Y/Y

The figure covers cash withdrawals and payments charged to debit or credit cards.

Card users in the ex-Soviet country of four million people carried out 10.9 billion transactions in the January-September period, up from 10.2 billion a year ago.

The number of bank cards in use in Moldova rose to 738,562 at the end of September from 721,051 a year earlier. Moldovan commercial banks issued 169,999 cards in the first nine months of 2009.

Visa, MasterCard, Unicard and MoldCardSystem credit and debit cards are accepted in Moldova.

(1 euro=16.2599 Moldovan lei)