According to information
provided by Head of Ukrainian Visa Inc. Office, Mrs. Svetlana Georbelidze, the portion of non-cash operations
performed in 2009 using cards issued by Ukrainian banks increased by 10%. At the sametime, the company observes the non-cash portion to be
insignificant in the total number of card operations.
Payments in retail networks
make only 5%
of card operations meanwhile 95% are ATM cash withdrawals. The latter is 17 times higher than that in Europe.
Similar statistics is
provided by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU): in
2009 5.2% of the value of card operations stand for non-cash
operations, however this figure rises to 6.6% in Q1 Y2010.
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