Czechia 2025
Bulgaria 2025
Ukraine 2025
Moldova 2025
Belarus 2025
Slovakia 2025
Market Overview Payment Organisation ZBK, the Slovak Bank Card Association. Domestic Payment Brands No domestic payment brands. Market Structure Like other CEE markets, continued rapid growth of card use in Slovakia. By end-2023, the number of cards had reached 6.31 million and there are now 180.2 payments on cards per capita. Cards issued are credit […]
Romania 2025
Market Overview Payment Organisations TransFonD (Societatea Nationala de Transfer de Fonduri si Decontari) is the interbank processor of the Romanian electronic payment system. Domestic Payment Brands No domestic card brands. Market Structure Cash remains the predominant payment instrument; credit transfers and cheques are used alongside debit cards, which were first issued in 1997. Debit cards […]
Poland 2025
Market Overview Payment Organisation Polski Standard Platnosci, the BLIK operator. Domestic Payment Brands No domestic card brand. BLIK, the digital A2A payment service of Polish banks. Market Structure The number of debit cards has grown slowly in recent years, while credit cards reached a peak of 33% of the cards total by end-2009, falling to […]
Hungary 2025
Market Overview Payment Organisation Nexi (formerly SIA Central Europe, interbank organisation GIRO Bankcard Company (GBC)). Domestic Payment Brands No domestic payment brands. Market Structure Debit cards account for 88.91% of the payment card base. Rapid growth of card use. 93.00% of all cards are contactless. In September 2016, the number of contactless card payments exceeded […]
Czechia 2025
Market Overview Payment Organisation SBK Czech Bank Card Association (SBK/BCA). Domestic Payment Brands No domestic payment brands. Market Structure Continued growth of card use. By end-2023, there were 14.91 million cards with 237.9 card payments per capita. Cards issued are credit cards, debit cards, and prepaid cards. 91.00% of cards are debit cards that are […]