{"id":48735,"date":"2014-08-19T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/card-transactions-up-16-3\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:05:15","slug":"card-transactions-up-16-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/card-transactions-up-16-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Card transactions up 16.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Credit and debit card transactions conducted in Brazil in the first half of this year were up 16.3% from the same period in 2013. Sales using the two types of cards amounted to R$ 455 billion (US$ 202.2 billion), according to a survey released this Tuesday (19th) by the Brazilian Credit Card and Services Association (Abecs).<\/p>\n<p>As per the survey, credit card transactions increased by 13.5% to R$ 291 billion (US$ 129.3 billion). Debit card transactions were up 21.6% to R$ 164 billion (US$ 72.88 billion). Credit card spending by foreigners in Brazil also soared due to the FIFA World Cup. Foreign visitors spent R$ 1.3 billion (US$ 577.7 million) using credit cards in June, up 96.9% from June 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of this year, credit and debit card sales amounted to a combined US$ 202.2 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"In the first half of this year, credit and debit card sales amounted to a combined US$ 202.2 billion.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}