Payment statistics
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| Retail payments |
Table 5 - Use of payment instrument in Luxembourg |
ECB payment statistics
The ECB regularly publishes detailed payment statistics with data sourced from the BCL's CDDP collection. Below are some relevant hyperlinks which show LU data per payment instrument.
- ECB homepage on payment statistics
- Last PDF report containing “Country tables” (the report is now discontinued, the last reference period is 2021)
ECB's data portal
The ECB's data portal contains a large number of indicators relating to inflation, monetary aggregates, and also payment statistics. Below you will find direct links for several key indicators for Luxembourgish payment service providers (PSPs).
Credit transfers (dataset PAY)
- Number of credit transfers, reported by the payer's PSP (annualised data)
- Value of credit transfers, reported by the payer's PSP (annualised data)
Direct debits (dataset PAY)
- Number of direct debits, reported by the payee's PSP (annualised data)
- Value of direct debits, reported by the payee's PSP (annualised data)
Card payments (dataset PAY)
- Number of card payments, reported by card issuing PSPs (annualised data)
- Value of card payments, reported by card issuing PSPs (annualised data)
ATM cash withdrawals (dataset PAY)
- Number of cash withdrawals, reported by card issuing PSPs (annualised data)
- Value of cash withdrawals, reported by card issuing PSPs (annualised data)
E-money payments (dataset PAY)
- Number of e-money payments, reported by e-money issuing PSPs (annualised data)
- Value of e-money payments, reported by e-money issuing PSPs (annualised data)
POS and ATM terminals (dataset PTN)
- Number of POS terminals (annualised data)
- Number of ATM terminals (annualised data)
Payments transactions (Key indicators)
Starting with reference period 2022-S1, the BCL provides semi-annual data to the ECB. The payments dashboard contains a harmonised view on payment transactions across the EU. To show transactions only for LU, click on the tab “Payment transactions”, then choose “LU” in the dropdown menu “Country”.
For completeness, the following is a complete list of relevant datasets containing payments statistics in the ECB's data portal:
- Payments transactions (Key indicators) (PAY)
- Credit transfers (including fraud data) (PCT)
- Direct debits (including fraud data) (PDD)
- E-money payment transactions (including fraud data) (PEM)
- Payment initiation services (including fraud data) (PIS)
- Electronic card payments sent by merchant category (PMC)
- Payments transactions by PSP category (PPC)
- Number of terminals provided by resident PSPs by type and function (PTN)
- Number of cards issued by resident PSPs by card function and scheme (PCN)
- ATM, OTC and POS terminal transactions (PTT)
- Number of participants in payments systems (PSN)
- Transactions in payments systems (PST)
