• Over 2bn payments made, value hits Rs154tr
• Digital channels process 88pc of all transactions
• Country’s 19,519 ATMs facilitate 259m transactions worth Rs4.3tr

KARACHI: The number of retail payments surpassed two billion in a quarter for the first time, reaching 2.143 billion, an 11 per cent increase in volume from the previous quarter, according to the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) Second Quarterly Payment System Review for FY25.

The total value of these trans-actions grew by 12pc to Rs154 trillion during the quarter under review (October-December).

The growth in transaction value was primarily driven by mobile banking apps, internet banking and over-the-counter (OTC) transactions at bank branches, the........

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