Nearly 90% of kiwis have a debit card and that helps put us ahead of any other country in the world in terms of EFTPOS use.
Current stats from Paymark
2 million eftpos transactions per day.
70 eftpos transactions per second.
Peak number of transactions was 3,262,903 on December 22nd 2006.
Average transaction time is 0.05 seconds.
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