Wednesday, July 20 2011 14:12
Armbusinessbank to increase number of plastic cards up to 50 thsd by the end of 2011
Arminfo. Armbusinessbank is going to increase the number of the plastic cards up to 50 thsd by the end of 2011.
As the Plastic Cards Department of Armbusinessbank told Arminfo, as of 1 April the total number of the active cards of the bank amounted to 38016 units, which is by 44,4% more than at the same period of 2010. The ArCa cards were 17980 units (growth by 20,4%), Visa cards - 11461 units (growth by almost 4 times), MasterCard - 8575 units (growth by 5,8%). The share of the salary cards is more than 84% (first position) of the active cards of ABB, which is by 40% more than at the same period of 2010.
The ABB is among the ten of the leading banks of Armenia by the number of the active ArCa and Visa cards, and among the five - by the number of MasterCard cards. The volume of transactions on ABB cards exceeded 30 bln drams in 2010 with 65% growth versus 2009.
By the end of June the bank emitted 1103 ArCa pension cards. The bank issues 8-10 pension cards on average daily. "This figure is not so small for the country where citizens do not have habit to use plastic cards", - the bank reported.
In future the bank is going to fulfill discount projects on the pension cards together with the network of pharmacies.