The volume and value of payments processed by interbank payment systems maintained by Latvijas Banka, i.e. the Electronic Clearing System (EKS) and TARGET-Latvija, constitute Latvijas Banka’s interbank payment system statistics. Data are compiled at the beginning of each month.
The payment statistics of Latvia comprises data on the volume of payment instruments, value of payment instruments, volume of transactions at terminals, value of transactions at terminals, OTC cash transactions, book-entry transactions, the number of customer accounts, the number of cards, the number of terminals, their networks and virtual POSs for cards and e-money.
Latvijas Banka compiles customer payment statistics of payment service providers twice a year as of 1998. The above statistics and customer payment statistics of Latvijas Banka and Valsts Kase (State Treasury) enable to assess the overall payment statistics of Latvia.