OREANDA-NEWS. February 02, 2011. In 2010 the National Bank of Uzbekistan for Foreign Economic Activity (NBU) actively worked on accepting payments for public utilities from the population. Totally, the bank accepted 131.5 billion soums as payment for public utilities and other services in 2010.

The system of cashless settlements by plastic cards plays a big role in attraction of population's free funds.

Since the beginning of 2010 the bank emitted 497,800 plastic cards, while total number of emitted cards exceeds 2 million. Within the framework of salary projects the bank emitted 728,800 plastic cards, i.e. 32% of the total emission.

In 2010 the turnover on cashless settlement through trade terminals accepting soum plastic cards made up 881.3 billion soums.

Total number of terminals installed in trade servicing enterprises such as bank branches made up 10,438.