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Payment Systems' Statistics

1. The Bank of Latvia interbank payment systems statistics

At the beginning of each month, the Bank of Latvia compiles data on the volume and value of payments processed in the interbank payment systems: in the electronic gross settlement system SAMS (in lats), electronic clearing system EKS (in lats and in euro) and TARGET2-Latvija (in euro).
For the statistical data and their analysis, see the Quarter 4 issue of the Monetary Review, the Bank of Latvia Annual Report and the appendix below.

The Bank of Latvia interbank payment systems statistics (xls 54 KB)
(I/2000-VII/2010)


2. Latvia's payment statistics

Since 1998, the Bank of Latvia twice a year compiles data on Credit Institutions Payment Statistics, which together with the Bank of Latvia and SJSC Latvijas Pasts payment statistics data allows to assess Latvia's payment statistics in general.
Latvia's payment statistics contains data on the volume of customer payment instruments, value of customer payment instruments, volume of transactions per type of terminal, value of transactions per type of terminal, OTC cash transactions, book-entry transactions, number of customer accounts, number of cards and terminals, their networks and virtual POS for cards and e-money.
For the statistical data and their analysis until 2007, see the Quarter 1 and Quarter 4 issues, but since 2008 - the Quarter 4 issue of the Monetary Review, the Bank of Latvia Annual Report and the appendix below.
Worksheets are updated on a semi-annual basis.

Latvia's payment statistics (xls 595 KB)
(I/1998-I/2010)


3. SEPA indicators

The SEPA (the Single Euro Payments Area) project intends to introduce a single set of payment instruments across Europe. For more details on the project see SEPA information on the Bank of Latvia's website.

To assess the progress in SEPA introduction, the European Central Bank has established a set of indicators that have been collected according to a common methodology adjusted to each country's payment market situation.
The first SEPA indicator on the SEPA credit transfers has been collected since 2008, indicating the share of those credit transfers which comply with the SEPA requirements at the bank-to-bank domain.
In the first half of 2010, 55.1% of customer credit transfers met the requirements of SEPA credit transfers.

SEPA indicators (xls 18 KB)
(I/2008 - VI/2010)