2.4.3. Usage Statistics of the CBRT Payment Systems

The yearly total amount reached in the Banking Payment System and Electronic Securities Transfer and Settlement System was 34.43 trillion Turkish liras, with a maximum daily amount of 216.92 billion Turkish liras obtained on 31 October 2011 (Graph 26). This value was not passed in 2013. The average daily amount of transactions was 137.76 billion Turkish liras in 2013. The number of transactions handled in the system was 2.4 million in 2013. The average daily number of messages was 9,991 in 2013. The daily number of transactions hit a peak of 18.936 on 21 October 2013.

The Retail Payment System began operating on 7 December 2012. The total amount reached 7.76 trillion Turkish liras. The maximum daily amount was 64 billion on 28 June 2013 and the average daily amount was 31.05 billion Turkish liras. The number of transactions handled in the system was 229.56 million and the average daily number of messages was 918,276. The daily number of transactions hit a peak of 2,211,320 on 16 December 2013 (Graph 27).

The number of transactions handled in the Auction System was 635,850.

The number of participants in CBRT Payment Systems was 50 as of end-2013.