In 2020, in Italy there were 3.6 million Point of Sales (POS) terminals. This number increased steadily since 2010, when the country counted approximately 1.35 million POS terminals. The increase went hand in the hand with the growth in the number of card payments at such terminals and the overall increasing popularity of cashless solutions.
Cashless solutions increasingly popular
Cashless solutions seem to be becoming more and more widespread in Italy. As mentioned before, card payments at POS increased steadily in the last few years, reaching 3 billion in 2018. A closer look at the methods of payments shows that the highest growth was to be seen in the number of debit card transactions. This figure increased more than twofold from 2009 to 2019, when the number of debit card payments in Italy reached 2.47 billion.
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ECB. (July 23, 2021). Number of POS terminals provided by resident PSPs in Italy from 2000 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 24, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/444549/number-of-pos-terminals-italy/
ECB. "Number of POS terminals provided by resident PSPs in Italy from 2000 to 2020." Chart. July 23, 2021. Statista. Accessed June 24, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/444549/number-of-pos-terminals-italy/
ECB. (2021). Number of POS terminals provided by resident PSPs in Italy from 2000 to 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 24, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/444549/number-of-pos-terminals-italy/
ECB. "Number of Pos Terminals Provided by Resident Psps in Italy from 2000 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 23 Jul 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/444549/number-of-pos-terminals-italy/
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