KARACHI: Around 60 million bank accounts are in the country having population of 208.31 million, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said in a report.
The SBP in its report on payment system released this week said that the currency circulation by September 30, 2020 was at Rs6,422 billion.
According to the central bank the payment system infrastructure as on September 30, 2020:
| Number of Banks (Branches) | 44(16,121) |
| Commercial/ Specialized Banks Branches | 14,938 |
| Microfinance (Branches) | 1,183 |
| Number of Real Time Online Branches (RTOBs) | 15,978 |
| Number of banks having ATM machines | 35 |
| Number of banks having open-looped POS machines | 5 |
| Number of banks having closed-looped POS machines | 4 |
| Number of banks providing Internet Banking services | 27 |
| Number of Banks providing Mobile Phone Banking services | 27 |
| Number of Banks providing Call Center Banking services | 23 |
| Total Number of PRISM System Participants | 50 |
| Total number of ATMs Interoperable Switches | 1 |
| Total number of Cash & Cheque Deposits Machines (CDMs) | 184 |
| Total number of Cash Deposits Machines with Cash Withdrawal facility | 20 |
| Multipurpose ATMs (With Cash & Cheque Deposit & Cash Withdrawal) | 15 |
