{"id":985,"date":"2022-12-15T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/?p=985"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:28:01","slug":"five-billionth-debit-card-payment-within-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/news\/five-billionth-debit-card-payment-within-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-billionth debit card payment in a single year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This week, the five-billionth debit card payment within a single calendar year was made in the Netherlands for the first time. The previous annual record was set in 2019\u2014the final year before the coronavirus pandemic\u2014with 4.58 billion debit card payments. In 2020 and 2021, the total stalled at 4.48 billion and 4.49 billion transactions respectively. The final figure for 2022 is expected to be around 5.25 billion transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/gijs-vijf-miljardste-pintransactie.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Man in camel-colored jacket checks in at the GVB gate with his smartphone for contactless travel on public transport.\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/gijs-vijf-miljardste-pintransactie.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/gijs-vijf-miljardste-pintransactie-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/gijs-vijf-miljardste-pintransactie-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/gijs-vijf-miljardste-pintransactie-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nieuwe-veelbelovende-pintoepassing\">Promising new use of debit card payments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gijs Boudewijn, managing director of the Dutch Payments Association, made a contactless public transport payment using his smartphone around the time the five-billionth debit card payment was calculated to have taken place. \u201cThe Dutch Payments Association is pleased that points of sale have returned to growth after two difficult years during the coronavirus pandemic, at least in terms of the number of purchases made by debit card. This milestone provides a good moment to reflect on that, with a new and promising application for contactless debit card payments: checking in and out of public transport in the Netherlands using a debit or credit card.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/5_miljardste_pinbetaling_2022_Gijs_Boudewijn_1024x500-610x305-1.png\" alt=\"Gijs Boudewijn makes a contactless public transport payment by smartphone to mark the five-billionth debit card payment of 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/5_miljardste_pinbetaling_2022_Gijs_Boudewijn_1024x500-610x305-1.png 610w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/5_miljardste_pinbetaling_2022_Gijs_Boudewijn_1024x500-610x305-1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-drukste-winkelweek-komt-nog\">Busiest shopping week still to come<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent weeks, debit cards were used more often around Black Friday and Sinterklaas than on normal days in 2022 and more often than around the same shopping days in previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The week immediately before Christmas is usually the busiest shopping week of the year, when the annual record for the number of debit card payments in a single day is broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands recorded its five-billionth debit card payment of 2022, surpassing the previous annual record from 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"btv_subject_tax":[16],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-release","btv_subject_tax-card-payments"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jaarrecord pinbetalingen gebroken: 5 miljard - Dutch Payments Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vijf miljard pinbetalingen in Nederland! 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