The number of payment transactions with cards issued by resident operators grew 9.6% on the year in the second quarter of 2020, to 222.2 million.
The value of card payment transactions grew 9.3% on the year in the second quarter, to RON28.27 billion, the data showed. POS transactions grew 7.2% on the year, to RON15.68 billion.
At the end of June 2020, 18.43 million payment cards were in circulation in Romania, 4.1% higher compared with end-June 2019. Of the total, 15.43 million were debit cards and 2.9 million were credit cards.
Romania has less than one bank card per capita, one of the lowest levels in the European Union. However, the transition towards cashless and contactless transactions, which grew in recent years due to increased digitization of banking services, was accelerated since the start of the pandemic.