MasterCard: credit card is popular during the crisis

Despite the difficult economic situation MasterCard Europe has reached a significant increase in many areas. In the second quarter of this year, MasterCard cardholders bought more with their card than the same period of 2008.

The gross turnover of MasterCard Europe in the second quarter, increased by 2.1 percent, the total value of purchases with card by 3.0 percent, the number of purchases with card by 7.2 percent compared to the datas of the second quarter of the previous year.
On 30th June 2009, 196 million MasterCards were on the market, which is a 3.8 percent increase compared to last year – reports TőzsdeFórum Online.