Payments Statistics

Indicators regarding cards, number of terminals and transactions with payment instructions - semi-annual data


2023 Sem1 2023 Sem2
Units - end of period
Total number of active cards 21,085,989 21,751,803
Cards with a cash function 20,962,679 21,549,687
ATM’s of resident PSP’s 10,244 10,229
POS’s of resident PSP’s 417,767 456,897
EFTPOS’s of resident PSP’s 407,827 446,708

Note: Starting with the reference year 2022, statistical data on payments are released semi-annually, following the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2020/2011 of the European Central Bank of 1 December 2020 amending Regulation (EU) No 1409/2013 on payments statistics (ECB/2013/43) (ECB/2020/59) entered into force on December 21st, 2020. Thus, the NBR Regulation no. 4/2014 regarding the reporting of data and statistical information to the NBR was repealed, and the new reporting requirements were included in the Regulation no. 4/2021 on the reporting of data and statistical information to the NBR - Romanian only

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