2024-12-20
To provide users with more statistics, today Lietuvos bankas announced updated payments statistics supplemented with more detailed data sections, including data on non-cash payments and cash withdrawal transactions, payment cards, card readers, and ATMs.
The new data sections are published using the data collected by Lietuvos bankas that Lithuanian payment service providers (PSPs) started to provide to Lietuvos bankas in 2022 after the entry into force of the amendments to the European Central Bank’s Regulation on payments statistics. The values of some of the new indicators now available will include historical information from 2022 or even earlier (depending on the indicator published). Payments statistics in their previous form published by Lietuvos bankas between 2006 and Q2 2024 will continue to be included in the publication of the updated data framework renewing the values already published.
The new payments statistics now available include e-money payments, payment initiation services, cash withdrawal using cards issued by Lithuanian PSPs and payment transactions with these cards by area of activity of the merchant to whom the cardholders make the payment. In addition, payments received by customers of Lithuanian PSPs are now broken down in greater detail by service, both according to residency and the attributes of the payment service. For example, card payments received are now to be published with the same level of detail as card payments sent. The data of both sent and received card payments now has a new attribute, i.e. residency of the terminal through which the card payment is made or the point of sale where the online payment is made by group of countries.
It should be noted that payments statistics published so far have been grouped only into two payments market groups, one of them comprising Lithuanian credit and electronic money institutions and Lietuvos bankas and the other one consisting of Lithuanian payment institutions. The new data published on payment services is broken down into three market sections (credit, e-money, and payment institutions), also showing whole-of-market payments, which, in addition to the aforementioned three groups, include payments made by Lietuvos bankas and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania as a payment service provider.
Payments statistics in their new form are published under Payments Statistics on Lietuvos bankas’ website.
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