{"id":2289,"date":"2019-08-30T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2019-08-30T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:18:54","slug":"credit-cards-shoot-up-by-57-debit-cards-by-20-bog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/credit-cards-shoot-up-by-57-debit-cards-by-20-bog","title":{"rendered":"Credit cards shoot up by 57%, debit cards by 20% \u2013 BoG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bank of Ghana Governor, Dr Ernest Addison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced that the number of credit cards issued in 2018 increased by 57.2 per cent to 23,102.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The central bank added that debit cards issuance, on the other hand, recorded a downward trend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of credit cards issued in 2018 also increased by 57.2 per cent to 23,102 while debit cards declined by 20.1 per cent to 4,754,514. Prepaid cards registered a 151.8 per cent increase to 216,592 in 2018,\u201d the BoG said in the Payment Systems Oversight Annual Report, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BoG, the number of registered internet banking customers also reduced.<\/p>\n<p>The number fell by 12.9 per cent from 936,965 in 2017 to 815,904 in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cnumber of registered internet banking customers declined by 12.9 per cent from 936,965 in 2017 to 815,904 in 2018. Similarly, the value of Internet Banking transactions decreased to GH\u00a2 6.27 billion in 2018 from GH\u00a2 9.74 billion in 2017\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the period, however, the number of registered mobile banking customers increased to 3,891,269 in 2018 from 2,110,984 in 2017. Similarly, the value of transactions increased to GH\u00a2 5.66 billion in 2018 from GH\u00a2 1.50 billion in 2017,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Ghana Governor, Dr Ernest Addison The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced that the number of credit cards issued in 2018 increased by 57.2 per cent to 23,102. 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