The value of cashless transactions in the first quarter of this year was 3.1 billion lei, an increase of 48.7% compared with the corresponding period last year.

In a response to IPN News Agency, the National Bank of Moldova says the cashless payments represented 60.8% of all the local operations in the period, while cash withdrawals 39.2%.

As regards the value of operations performed by card, cash withdrawals constituted 81.6%, while cashless payments 18.4% respectively.

According to the data for 2019, the average value of a local cash withdrawal operation was 1,838 lei, up 8.4% on 2018. The average value of a cashless payment was 282 lei, down 4.5% on 2018.

The value of operations performed in Moldova with cards issued in Moldova in the first three quarters of 2019 exceeded 45 billion lei. Of this sum, over 37 billion lei represented cash withdrawals.