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Value of Macedonian Bank Card Transactions Up 5.7% M/M in Sept - Table

Oct 19, 2009, 4:46:19 PMArticle by Yordan Todorov
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October 19 (SeeNews) - The value of bank card transactions in Macedonia grew by 5.7% month-on-month to 7.734 billion denars ($187 million/125 million euro) in September, while the number of transactions increased by a monthly 5.8%, central bank statistics showed.

Value of Macedonian Bank Card Transactions Up 5.7% M/M in Sept - Table

On an annual basis, the value of bank card transactions fell by 35.5% in September, while the number of transactions dropped by 16.4% to 2,268,244.

The number of credit cards in use in Macedonia totalled 1.232 million in September, 0.7% up from the previous month and 20.8% higher than a year earlier.

Details follow:

Sept'09 Aug'09 Sept'08
TOTAL CARDS 1,232,329 1,223,649 1,019,736
-DEBIT 536,098 532,968 510,208
-CASH FUNCTION 80,493 80,670 0
-CREDIT 190,637 190,629 211,776
-COMBINED 425,101 419,382 297,752
TRANSACTIONS 2,268,244 2,143,840 2,714,365
Value of Transaction (mln denars) 7,734 7,319 11,987
POS TERMINALS 23,275 23,036 20,882
ATMs 821 818 693


American Express, DinersClub, MasterCard, and VISA are among the card brands accepted in Macedonia.

(1 euro = 61.8666 Macedonian denars)

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