KARACHI: Over ninety four percent of banks' branches in the country are now offering Real-Time Online Branches (RTOB) services as 50 more bank branches were added to this network during third quarter of the current fiscal year (FY13).
According to State Bank of Pakistan's Payment Systems Review for the third quarter of FY13, released here on Wednesday, overall 9,946 branches of banks out of 10,535 now offer RTOB services across the country.
The volume of overall e-banking transactions in the country also increased by 3.47 percent amounting to 82.21 million transactions and value of e-banking transactions registered a growth of 4.37 percent reaching Rs 7.9 trillion during the third quarter of the current fiscal year, the review said.
The Payment Systems infrastructure in the country maintained an increasing growth trend during the third quarter of FY13 and 217 more Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) were installed by various banks bringing the total number of ATMs in the country to 6,449.
The review said the number of plastic cards in the country also witnessed an increase of 5.06 percent in the third quarter reaching 21.77 million. In comparison with other cards, debit cards have shown the highest percentage growth of about 5.41 percent which has raised the total number of debit cards so far issued to 19.57 million.
The debit cards have the highest share in the total number of plastic cards issued in the country which is 89.94 percent in the current quarter of FY 13. Transactions through debit cards have also increased both in volume and value as compared to the previous quarter which is 6.2 percent and 8.82 percent respectively.
The review highlighted that of all the e-banking transactions, mobile transactions show the highest percentage increase since the previous quarter of current fiscal year.
The transactions increased by 22.84 percent in terms of volume reaching the number of 1.12 million as compared to 0.91 million in the preceding quarter. Similarly, the value of mobile transactions also showed highest percentage increase compared to the previous quarter of current fiscal year. The value of transactions increased by 30.66 percent reaching Rs 7.3 billion compared to Rs 5.6 billion in the preceding quarter, the review further elaborated.
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