Euro area card payments reach new highs

The European Central Bank (ECB) reported this week that non-cash payments across the euro area continued to expand during the second half of 2025, while Cyprus emerged as the bloc’s leading user of card payments and recorded faster adoption of instant payments than the euro area average.

The ECB said the total number of non-cash payment transactions in the euro area increased by 6.9 per cent year on year to 83.5 billion during the second half of 2025....