Large number of electronic payments processed

In this year's period before Christmas, from Saturday 18 December up to and including Friday 24 December, a total number of 51.730.410 debit and credit card payments were processed. Last year, when this period was one day shorter (from Saturday 19 December - Thursday 24 December), the total number amounted to 46.565.389.

On 23 December 2010, a total number of 10,692,783 debit and credit card payments were processed. This number was slightly below last year's daily record, which dated from Wednesday 23 December 2009 and amounted to 10,867,903 transactions.

The same goes for the peak record.  On Friday 24 December 2010 our systems processed an average of 391 transactions per second between 14:00 - 14:30. This peak was a little under the existing record of 408 transactions per second, dating from Wednesday 24 December 2009. The peak volume lies far beneath Equens' maximum system capacity, as our systems are able to handle peaks of over 500 transactions per second.