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UK card payments continued upward trend in 2016

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210000UK card payments continued upward trend in 201602 March 2017  |  1961 views  |  0Source: UK Cards AssociationConsumers spent £647 billion using payment cards in 2016, new figures show. There were 14.8 billion card transactions in 2016, equivalent to 40.5 million transactions a day or 469 a second, data from The UK Cards Association shows.

Three-quarters of retail spending (76.4 per cent) was on payment cards. Retail spending on cards in 2016 was £298 billion, compared to £290 billion in 2015.

The majority of card spending in 2016 was made via debit cards, which accounted for £461 billion of spending. Total card spending in 2015 was £620 billion.

Contactless payments accounted for £25 billion of spending

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