04.01.2024

Edenred will be launching, for the first time, virtual cards for the Meal Card, Holiday Card, Cultural Card, and Gift Card products. more

04.29.2020

Romanian state-owned lender CEC Bank will issue free debit cards for people who cashed their pensions at bank offices and will deliver them at the customers' homes addresses via the Romanian post more

11.28.2017

The number of subscriptions to mobile telephony services in Romania kept an upward trend in the first half of 2017, to the detriment of active prepaid cards, Romania’s telecom regulator ANCOM said more

08.30.2016

The number of Mastercard and Maestro cards in Romania rose over 30% over the last five years, according to the latest Mastercard data. more

08.22.2016

Holders of cards issued by banks in Romania made payments to merchants worth RON7.6 billion lei (EUR1.7 billion) in the first half of 2016, up 22% against the same period a year ago, Romanian central more

06.20.2016

Holders of cards issued by banks in Romania made card payments to merchants abroad in the amount of RON1.4 billion (EUR317 million) in January-March 2016, up 22% against the same period in 2015. more

07.30.2015

Netopia Mobilpay on Thursday said it processed 1.2 million online card transactions in the first half of 2015, up over 30% against the same period a year ago, and a quarter of transactions were made more

02.18.2015

Owners of cards issued by local banks in 2014 operated payments at retailers worth 30 billion lei (EUR6.7 billion), up 16% from 2013, according with BNR. However, cash withdrawals from ATMs are still more

12.15.2014

Card money accounts for just one third of Romanians’ overall consumption, while cash represents the rest of two thirds, a situation that is fuelling the underground economy, believes Catalin Cretu, more

11.18.2014

Owners of cards issued by local banks operated payments at local and foreign retailers worth 22 billion lei (EUR5 billion) in the first nine months of this year, 16% above the level of the more

04.11.2014

The six domestic banks that issue contactless cards have reached a portfolio of around 440,000 such cards and an acceptance network of around 5,500 contactless POS terminals. more

04.09.2014

Romanian prepaid mobile phone card users will have to register their ID with their mobile operator or their service would be suspended and people buying prepaid SIM cards will have to present ID upon more

03.25.2014

Romanian card owners made online payments of around EUR1 billion last year, of which two thirds were purchases form outside Romania, Catalin Cretu, Visa Europe regional manager for Romania and more

03.05.2014

RomCard, a major processor of online payments by banking cards in Romania, in 2013 registered a 40% increase in the overall number of processed and routed online transactions against 2012, although more

09.19.2013

Card holders spent 11 billion lei (equivalent to EUR2.5 billion) on food, beverages and tobacco, half the overall amount spent by Romanians using cards. more

06.11.2013

Sales of video cards in Romania dropped in volume but increased in value last year as customers chose more expensive cards built with gamers in mind. The trend will continue over the next few years, more

10.10.2012

Romanians make six card payments on average, annually, which is very low compared to other European countries, on the backdrop of a poor penetration rate of cards and payment terminals at merchants more

08.21.2012

Romanians paid 10.4 billion lei (almost EUR2.4 billion) worth of shopping by card in the first half, up 22% year-on-year. One fifth of this amount was spent in shops abroad, according to Romania’s more

05.10.2012

Euronet Worldwide paid $18.3 million to some Greek investors to buy card-processing provider Smart PayNetwork (PayNet) at the end of last year, the company’s annual report reads. more

02.26.2012

HP Romania and Novensys Corporation will provide Romania's National Health Insurance House (CNAS) with the IT solution used to introduce the electronic health insurance card, through a contract worth more

01.27.2012

The overall volume of online payments in Romania, from card payments on the internet, to orders made online and paid cash on delivery, is worth over EUR1 billion per year, Cristian Herghelegiu, more

01.17.2012

Banks expanded their payment terminal (POS) networks deployed in stores last year, a market segment dominated by a small number of players, which generates EUR40 million a year in fee revenue, as more more

12.22.2011

The Romanian Government on Thursday decided to extend by one year, until end-2012, the deadline by which pensioners and war veterans will have to obtain travel smart cards, for use in county and more

12.14.2011

Romanian state-owned lender CEC Bank said Wednesday it has blocked a number of bank cards issued by financial institutions in Romania, citing possible security breaches. more

10.19.2011

Only 5% of the purchases made on eMAG.ro are paid by card and this figure will not change significantly in the future, because the banks discourage the use of this payment instrument, said Radu more