Payment System

Statistics

Notice

From 20 October 2026, the Statistics series of Banca d'Italia will move to the Statistics Portal. Reports can be found in the Updates section. To ease the transition, until 31 December 2026 new reports will be available both here as PDFs and on the Portal as interactive HTML pages. Previous editions will remain available on this page.

Banca d'Italia publishes twice-yearly information on the payment system on the Statistics Portal, organized into four thematic reports, covering in particular:

use by households and firms of retail payment services and instruments provided or issued by banks and non-banks, with a focus on technology, channels and access points to cash;
regional data on ATMs and POS terminals, non-cash transactions and the spread of payment cards, with a sectoral breakdown for point-of-sale transactions and indicators of access to cash;
public payments and collection, distinguished between central government treasury operations and local government administrations;
functioning of the interbank clearing and settlement circuits managed by Banca d'Italia, as well as clearing and settlement services for transactions in securities.

Time series data are available in the Statistical Database (BDS) section of the website.