On April 1, 69.22 million visa cards and 67.75 million Mastercard cards were in circulation, and their share of the market was 50.4% against 49.3%.
In the first quarter of 2025, the number of visa payment operators card operators increased by 5.62 million, or by 8.8%, while its main competitor – Mastercard – reduced by 0.2 million, or 0.3%, as a result, as a result, the total number of visculation cards in the first hour of MasterCard’s visculation. The NBU reported it.
It was noted that on April 1, the circulation was 69.22 million visa cards and 67.75 million Mastercard, and their share of the market reached 50.4% compared to 49.3%, while at the beginning of the year – 48.2% compared to 51.5%, and on April 1, 2024 – 45.3% compared to 54.3%.
Sa pamamagitan ng bilang ng mga aktibong kard (hindi bababa sa isang operasyon ng paggasta sa nakaraang buwan), ang Mastercard ay visa pa rin sa simula ng Abril, bagaman ang lag sa pagitan nila ay nabawasan sa isang minimum na: 29.94 milyon kumpara sa 29.32 milyon, habang sa simula ng Abril 2024 – 29.85 milyon laban sa 28.65 milyon, at sa simula ng Abril 2024 – 29.85 milyon kumpara at 22.65 mill.
The MasterCard component for active market cards until April 1 is 50.3%, while the visa is 49.3%, and the National Payment System Proster is just over 0.3%.
According to the statistics of the NBU, according to the monthly volume and number of non -Cash operations in Ukraine, Visa overtook MasterCard back in November -December 2024, and in March this year the gap only grew: 409 million operations for 198.0 Billion UAH against 346 million operations of 183.9 Billion UAH, Although the MasterCard is still ahead – 21 million operations for 114.1 billion UAH against 17 million operations for UAH 90.9 billion.
As you know, by the end of 2024, Virtual Monobank, the second number of issued cards in Ukraine, decided to translate most of the customers from MasterCard to Visa.
The number of current fees in Ukraine in January -March 2025 increased by 4.1%, or by 5.42 million, up to 137.4 million cards, while increasing active only 1.2%, or 0.71 million, up to 59.4 million cards.
State privatbank holds a market leadership position: since the beginning of the year has increased the number of current fees by 2.6%, or 1.49 million, up to 58.17 million PCs, including active – by 1.4%, or 0.44 million, up to 31.97 million PCs.
In the Universal Bank (Mono), which in 2024 reached second place and gradually caught Privatbank, in the first quarter of this year, the number of active cards was first reduced by 0.6%, or by 0.06 million, up to 9.72 million, though the total number of circulation cards increased by 4.1%, or 0.94 million, up to 24.18 million.
Oshcadbank, which closes three leaders on the number of cards, increased their number 8.4%in the first trimester, or 1.49 million, up to 19.22 million PCs, and the second more active card – by 2.9%, or 0.23 million, up to 8.00 million PCs.
Keep in mind that the National Bank of Ukraine has decided not to expand regulation restriction for 150,000 hryvnias per month for translation of individuals from card to card.
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