YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. In 2006, a growth of operations through various payment systems and by means of payment instruments was registered in Armenia. According to the press service of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), 2 mln 422 thousand 60 cashless payments of the total amount of 6 trillion 664 billion drams (1 bln 601 mln 769 thousand USD) were made in 2006. 1 mln 53 thousand 339 payments of the total amount of 4 trillion 815 billion drams were made through the CBA payment systems. In 2006, the amount of cashless payments increased 1.4fold (by 1 trillion 791 thousand drams), while their number - 1.2 fold (411,952). The amount of payments through the CBA payment systems increased 1.6fold (by 1 trillion 818 billion drams), while their number grew 1.2fold and made 194,861. The average daily amount of money transfers through the CBA payment systems made 18.8 bln drams, the number of such transfers made 4,115. The average daily amount of money transfers grew by 7 bln drams (the number - by 761) compared with 2005, with 5.7 bln drams of this amount being conditioned by a growth in transfers related to stock exchange operations.

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