Statistics

China's credit card fraud losses down 32.38% in 2010

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-05-31 09:44

BEIJING -- Losses due to credit card fraud fell 32.38 percent year-on-year to 117.88 million yuan ($18.18 million) in 2010 with the fraud ratio standing at 0.0038 percent, down 0.004 percentage points from one year earlier, the China Bank Association (CBA) announced Monday.

The transactional value of China's credit cards accounted for 32 percent of the total retail sales of consumer goods, making credit cards an important payment tool, according to the book.

The country issued 230 million credit cards in 2010, up 23.96 percent from one year earlier. Of these, about 62.31 percent of the credit cards, or 131 million, were activated, it said.