Bank cards: new record of transactions per minute 22/12/2007 19:02
The pace of bank card transactions hit a new record high on Saturday, the first day of the weekend before Christmas. "Atos Worldline" (ex-Banksys) indeed noted a record of 16 transactions per minute shortly before 9.110 pm.
The previous record had been set at 8.882 transactions on Saturday December 23, 2006. According to the Atos spokesperson, it will be possible to establish as of this Sunday whether this Saturday also broke the record for the number of transactions per day. But we should not be far from the 4,3 million electronic transactions noted this same December 23 of last year. (NLE)
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So obviously the purists will say that we should also take into account the average amount of transactions. It prevents a transaction is a purchase, so it's purchasing power and from this bridge of view, it doesn't seem to be going down ...