Turnover of the national payment system for the first ten months reached 105 billion manats
BAKU/20.12.13/TURAN : Credit Organizations of Azerbaijan met in October 2013, arranged 2359 thousand of payment orders totaling 10,322 million manat. By increasing the amount of payments to 187 thousand (8.6% ) of their total turnover decreased compared to the previous month by 198 million manat.
Compared with the corresponding period last year, the number of payments in January-October increased by 812 thousand or 3.8% to 22,163 thousand, and their volume increased by 10,953 million or 11.6% to 105.317 billion manat.
In the structure of payments turnover in January-October, the share of large and urgent payments had 1.88 % ( 411,000 ) of the total number and 88.7 % ( 93,413 million manat) of their total volume . The average size of this category of payments decreased compared to October 2012 by 3% , amounting to 196,600 manat, and the average size and small retail payments increased by 10% to 552.5 manat.
As of November 1, 2013 payment system users were 43 organizations , 41 of which could make large and urgent payments . - 15B -
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