OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2013. In 2012 Russian PrivatBank has almost geminated the turnover via its retail terminal network, that currently totals 9,096 units in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the largest regions of the Russian Federation. In November, 2012 the network's turnover made up RUR1.036 billion, while in January it amounted to RUR586 million.

This year the popularity of non-cash payments in Russia significantly grew due to the terminal network expansion and the launch of the mini-terminals that allow to receive banking card payments via mobile phones. PrivatBank was the first to introduce this technology in Russia.

"In Moscow the retail non-cash payments are already more popular than the cash ones, and there is the same tendency in other big cities," - says Nikolay Davydov, Chairman of PrivatBank (Russia). - "Next year, it is expected a market tendency of increase in the number of payments via mobile platforms such as smartphones and mini-terminals, that the small business starts using actively."

According to the bankers’ outlooks, in 2012 the volume of customer non-cash operations will increase by at least 40% as a result of POS-terminal network expansion and active development of Internet and mobile banking. Nikolay Davydov noted that this year over 3% of all transactions have been made by the Russian PrivatBank card holders via mobile software application Privat24, and the number of transactions via smartphone banking service grew by 15% monthly.