The Asia Pacific Payments Databook 2009
Publication Date: 13 February 2009

Publication Price: US$6000

ABOUT THIS REPORT

Amidst the global economic slowdown, countries in Asia Pacific are laying out legal and technology infrastructures to upgrade their payment systems. This development is reflected in the shift of payment instruments used by consumers, companies and banks as well as the increased use of electronic payment systems. The Asia Pacific Payments Databook provides statistics of payment instruments and system usage in each of the countries and regions covered.

In line with how non-cash payment transactions are conducted, this report addresses the use of payment instruments and terminals by consumers, use of Interbank Retail Payment System, and use of RTGS respectively. Each section includes statistical tables detailing volume of transactions, value of transactions, volume and value of transactions per capita (for transactions by consumers), and transaction value as percentage of GDP. The report also discusses the statistics related to volume of cards issued and payment-related terminals located in each country.

To assess the progress of each country towards a non-cash payments as well as non-paper-based payments entity, the report also discusses the total volume and value of non-cash payment transactions, non-paper-based payment transactions as well as relevant indexes by country.


  1. Payment Technology Vendors and Service Providers
  2. Consultants, systems integrators, merchant processors and supporting industry players
  3. Research analysts in financial institutions, regulatory bodies and government agencies

 The Asia Pacific Payments Databook is a tool that allows users to assess the development of payment systems in each country, diagnose the gaps with leaders in the region, perform informed strategic planning, and identify business opportunities in payment system infrastructure. The sections stated below compares the statistics of the following countries and regions: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand

Section 1 National Payments Statistics by Country
Table 1. Non-Cash Payment Index by Country (Non-Cash Payment as % of GDP) 
Table 3. Paperless Payment Index by Volume by Country (Paperless Payment as % of    Total Non-Cash Payment)
Table 4. Paperless Payment Index by Value by Country (Paperless Payment as % of Total Non-Cash Payment)      
Table 5. Volume of Total Non-Cash Payment by Country
Table 6. Value of Total Paper-based Payment by Country
Table 7. Volume of Total Paper-based Payment by Country
Table 8. Monetary Statistics by Country 
 
Section 2 Cards Issued and Terminals Located in the Country
Credit card
Table 9. Number of credit card by country
Table 10. number of credit card per capita by country
Debit card
Table 11. Number of debit card by country
Table 12. number of debit card per capita by country
ATM
Table 13. Number of ATMs
Table 14. Number of ATMs per 1 million population
POS  
Table 15. Number of POS
Table 16. Number of POS per 1 million population
 
Section 3  Use of Payment Instruments by Consumers
Transaction volume
Table 17. Volume of Credit Transfer Payment by country
Table 18. Volume of Direct Debits Payment by country
Table 19. Volume of Credit Cards Payment by country
Table 20. Volume of Debit Cards Payment by country
Table 21. Volume of Total Cards Payment by country
Table 22. Volume of Total Checks Payment by country
Transaction Value
Table 23. Value of Credit Transfer Payment by country
Table 24. Value of Direct Debits Payment by country
Table 25. Value of Credit Cards Payment by country
Table 26. Value of Debit Cards Payment by country
Table 27. Value of Total Cards Payment by country
Table 28. Value of Total Checks Payment by country
Transaction Volume per Capita
Table 29. Value per Capita of Credit Transfer Payment by country
Table 30. Value per Capita of Direct Debits Payment by country
Table 31. Value per Capita of Credit Cards Payment by country
Table 32. Value per Capita of Debit Cards Payment by country
Table 33. Value per Capita of Total Cards Payment by country
Table 34. Value per Capita of Total Checks Payment by country
Transaction Value per Capita
Table 35. Value per Capita of Credit Transfer Payment by country
Table 36. Value per Capita of Direct Debits Payment by country
Table 37. Value per Capita of Credit Cards Payment by country
Table 38. Value per Capita of Debit Cards Payment by country
Table 39. Value per Capita of Total Cards Payment by country
Table 40. Value per Capita of Total Checks Payment by country
 
Section 4         Use of Interbank Retail Payment Systems
Total Volume
Table 41. Volume of EFTPOS System by country
Table 42. Volume of Inter-bank GIRO Clearing System by country
Table 43. Volume of Total Check Clearing System by country
Table 44. Volume of Other Inter-bank Retail Payment by country
Total Value
Table 45. Value of EFTPOS System by country
Table 46. Value of Inter-bank GIRO Clearing System by country
Table 47. Value of Total Check Clearing System by country
Table 48. Value of Other Inter-bank Retail Payment by country
Value as % of GDP
Table 49. Value of EFTPOS System as % of GDP by country
Table 50. Value of Inter-bank GIRO as % of GDP Clearing System by country
Table 51. Value of Local Currency Check Clearing System as % of GDP by country
Table 52. Value of Foreign Currency Check Clearing System as % of GDP by country
Table 53. Value of Total Check Clearing System as % of GDP by country
Table 54. Value of Other Inter-bank Retail Payment as % of GDP by country
 
Section 5  Large Value Realtime Gross Settlement Payment Systems
Number of Participants
Table 55. Number of Participants in Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) by country
Total Volume
Table 56. Volume of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) by country
Total Value
Table 57. Value of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) by country
Value as % of GDP
Table 58. Table 58. Value of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) as % of GDP by country