Fourth, we record that payment infrastructure development also shows significant growth every year, such as ATM, EDC, and use of electronic channels, e.g. mobile banking, internet banking, and phone banking. Payment infrastructure growth of ATM and EDC in the last two years reaches 14% and 50% respectively. 17.
Third, a key feature of this episode is that confidence in the euro is a more prominent issue than was the case three years ago. Those countries at the so-called periphery’ are paying a high price as they play their part in keeping the euro together.