Payment service providers - cards and terminals

Description: The table shows the number of payment cards and e-money cards issued by domestic payment service providers, as well as the number of payment terminals (point-of-sale terminals) and terminals where e-money can be used for payment provided by domestic payment service providers.

Source: OeNB.

Definitions and terms: Payment statistics, cards, terminals, infrastructure.

Legal basis: Regulation (EU) 2020/2011 of the European Central Bank of December 1, 2020, on payment statistics (ECB/2020/59) in conjunction with Sections 44 and 44a of the National Bank Act; Directive 2015/2366/EC on payment services in the internal market.

Methodology: Full survey as part of payment statistics, quarterly.

Reporting institutions: Payment service providers (credit institutions under EU law, payment institutions, e-money institutions) based in Austria or branches/subsidiaries from the EEA (in accordance with freedom of establishment) provided they are issuers and/or acquirers

Standards and codes: ISO codes.

Index: Payment service providers, Austria, OeNB, payment transaction statistics.