DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, April 16. The number of POS terminals in Tajikistan amounted to 7,420 as of the end of February 2024, Trend reports.
Data from the National Bank of Tajikistan shows that this figure is 5.65 percent higher than the 7,023 POS terminals at the end of January 2024 and 90 percent higher than the 3,896 terminals in February 2023.
Furthermore, the number of ATMs in the country totaled 2,370 at the end of February, which is an increase of 2.7 percent compared to the 2,306 ATMs in January 2024. This figure rose by 30 percent over the figures for February 2023 (1,812 ATMs).
Meanwhile, the number of bank payment cards in Tajikistan reached 6,991,672 by the end of February 2024, which is a 2 percent increase from the 6,852,927 cards in January of the current year. The figure grew by 29.7 percent compared to the 5,388,380 cards in February 2023.
As of the end of February 2024, Tajikistan had 63 credit financial organizations operating, including 14 traditional banks, 1 Islamic bank, 1 non-bank credit organization, 19 microcredit deposit organizations, 3 microcredit organizations, and 25 microcredit funds. Meanwhile, there were 24 banks issuing bank payment cards at the end of the reporting month.