
Digital payments as an alternative to cash doubled in June 2026 compared to 2022, driven mainly by payment cards, according to the latest report from the Bank of Italy.
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Bank of Italy report on digital payments as an alternative to cash.
The growth of digital payments as an alternative to cash does not stop and, as emerges from the latest report from the Bank of Italy, saw operations with these instruments double in June 2026 compared to 2022.
The data, which confirms and reinforces previous findings, underlines how "the increase in these transactions is attributable, to a large extent, to that of payment cards".
In the second quarter of 2026, POS transactions with debit cards represented 71.9 percent of the total, followed by prepaid cards (17.1 percent) and credit cards (11 percent).

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