For nine months of 2021, bank card holders in the territory of the Republic of Abkhazia performed transactions totaling 18.9 billion rubles. Thus, the volume of transactions made through the payment infrastructure of the national payment system APRA increased by 83.5%, or 8.6 billion rubles compared to the same period last year. In the structure of transactions, the share of international payment system cards accounted for 44.7%, APRA cards - 43.3%, and Mir payment system cards - 12.0%.
The volume of transactions with Russian bank cards at NPS APRA for the nine months of 2021 increased by 162.1% (6.6 billion rubles) compared to the same period last year and amounted to 10.8 billion rubles. At the same time, since the beginning of the year, there have been transactions of 2.3 billion rubles with Mir cards, which is 181.1% (1.5 billion rubles) more than in 2020.
Following the results of nine months of 2021, the volume of non-cash transactions for payment for goods and services by bank cards amounted to 5.4 billion rubles including cards of the international payment system - 4.1 billion rubles, Mir cards - 1.0 billion rubles. The volume of non-cash transactions of APRA cardholders increased by 88.8% compared to the same period last year and amounted to 289 million rubles.
In 2021, holders of APRA "World" cards began to use bank cards more actively outside the Republic of Abkhazia. In the reporting period, the volume of transactions amounted to 51 million rubles, in 2020 this figure was 29 million rubles.
For 9 months 2021 the participating banks of the NPS APRA installed 561 terminal devices. The payment network of NPS APRA comprises over 3 thousand terminals for accepting bank cards at the points of sale of goods and services