YEREVAN, March 17. /ARKA/. Total volume of all card transactions in Armenia amounted to 1,274.8 billion drams in 2014, an increase of 26.2% compared to the year before, the website of the Central Bank of Armenia reports.

Number of card transactions during the year totaled 24,822,723 (21% increase compared to 2013).
Local ArCa cards were used to effect a total of 7,492,928 transactions for 347.6 billion drams in 2014, an increase of 23.4% compared to 2013.

Number of VISA card transactions was 10,903,282 during the year with the total amount at 596.1 billion drams. As compared with 2013, the amount of transactions went up by 26.3%.

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Areximbank – Gazprombank Group CJSC started issuing and serving proximity cards with VisapayWave technology, the press office of the bank reported on Monday

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VTB Bank (Armenia) said today it remains the leading bank in the country by the number of issued payment cards, which have grown this year by 20 percent to 368,000

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Total volume of all card transactions in Armenia amounted to about 108.2bln drams in September, an increase of 3.7% compared to August, reads the Central Bank of Armenia monthly information bulleting for September 2014

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Some 132,700 transactions were made by using Armenian commercial banks’ plastic cards outside of the country in July 2014 (about 12.9% month-on-month growth), the Central Bank of Armenia says in a fresh issue of its monthly bulletin

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Armenian Ardshininvestbank has announced today Visa Individual payment cards project that allows cardholders to design the card face as they want allowing them also to emphasize their individuality

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Plastic cards issued by Armenian banks were used in the first quarter of this year to make a total of 257.16 billion drams worth transactions, an increase of 14% compared with the same period in 2013, the Central Bank said in a statement, posted on its official website. It said the number of transactions grew by 21 percent to 5,282,968

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Bank VTB (Armenia) expands opportunities for transfer from a card to another, the bank’s press office told ARKA

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VTB Bank (Armenia) offers a new service My Thrifty Card to enhance its clients’ loyalty, the bank’s press office reported on Friday

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Bank Anelik has improved terms of its “Simple-Fast” card loan, i.e. has reduced the interest rate and extended the list of its branches giving out the loan, the bank’s press office reported

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