The number of banking cards in circulation in Moldova, at the end of this year’s second quarter, has surpassed 1.8 million. In the same period, over 141 thousand cards have been issued, and another 88 thousand have been withdrawn from circulation, according to data from the National Bank of Moldova.

In this period, the number of operations with cards issued in Moldova has been over 12.5 million, of which 6.9 million have been cash withdrawals. Total value across operations in this period is 12.8 billion lei, of which 11.1 billion are withdrawals.

Over two million operations using Moldovan banking cards have been conducted abroad. These were mostly cashless payments. Total value of said operations was 1.4 billion lei, of which 170.7 million were cash withdrawals and 1.2 billion were card payments.

At total of 1.7 million operations have been conducted in Moldova, using foreign issue cards. Of them, 1.3 million were card payments. Total value of these operations is 1.9 billion lei, of which 941. 6 million were cash withdrawals and 919.2 were card payments.