Turnover of the national payment system in the first nine months reached 95 billion manats

BAKU/03.12.13/TURAN : Credit Organizations of Azerbaijan met in September 2013 2172 thousand payment orders totaling 10,520 million manat. By increasing the amount of payments to 114 thousand (5.5% ) their total turnover decreased compared to the previous month by 473 million manat.

Compared with the corresponding period last year, the number of payments in January-September increased by 797 thousand or 4.2% to 19,804 thousand, and their volume increased by 10,492 million or 12.4% to 94,995 million manat.

In the structure of payments turnover in January-September, the share of large and urgent payments was 1.84 % (365,000) of the total number and 88.8 % (84,369 million manat) of their total volume. The average size of this category of payments decreased compared to September 2012 by 4.2 %, amounting to 221,800 manat, and the average size and small retail payments - by 3.1% to 565.3 manat.

As of October 1, 2013 payment system users were 43 organizations, 41 of which could make large and urgent payments. - 15B -