Turnover of the national payment system in the first 11 months reached 115 billion manats
BAKU/22.01.14/TURAN : Credit organizations of Azerbaijan met in November 2013 2,359,000 payment orders totaling 10,322 million manat. As the number of payments grew by 46 thousand (2 %), their total turnover decreased compared to the previous month at 318 million ( 3.1%).
Compared with the corresponding period last year, the number of payments in January-November increased by 861,000 or 3.6 % to 24,476,000 , and their volume increased by 10,549 million or 10.1% to 115.321 billion manat.
In the structure of payments turnover in January-November, the share of large and urgent payments was 1.86 % ( 456,000 ) of the total number and 88.4 % ( 101,961 million manat) of their total volume. The average size of this category of payments decreased compared to November 2012 by 5.7 %, amounting to 190,000 manat, and the average size and small retail payments increased by 24.5 % to 552.5 manat. - 15B -
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