E-card payments ever more popular
Bulgarians grow to prefer ever more often e-card payments than cash, shows a report of the European organization for debit and credit card trade in Bulgaria. The number of transactions in this country made at the site of purchase through Visa cards in the course of 2010 has increased with 45% on 2009, Visa Europe informs. Some 2.3% of the individual consumer payments last year have been made with a Visa card to the cost of EUR 535 million. Bulgaria is one of the four countries in which one of the most secure debit card is being issued according to the requirements of SEPA – V PAY, the Visa Europe source informs.