Bankgirot publishes payment statistics monthly for the Swedish retail payment system/retail funds transfer system market. The statistics show the payments in both the Bankgirot payment systems: The Bankgiro System and Payments in Real Time. A summary of the development during the last month is shown below.

Payment statistics for January 2023

Payments and amount in the Bankgiro System

The number of payments in January in the Bankgiro system amounted to 213 million transactions, which corresponds to a increase of 2.6% compared to the same month last year.

Diagram – Number of payments processed in the Bankgiro system. 

The greatest proportion of payments is from autogiro and internet payments. These two types of payment make up approximately 80% of the total number of payments on the payment side of the Bankgiro system.

The amount processed during January was SEK 1397 billion, which corresponds to an increase of 11.2% compared to the same month last year. 

Diagram – Amount of money processed in the Bankgiro system. 

Payments in the Real time payment system

The volume trend in real time payments in the Bankgirot Real Time payment system has been strong since inception about 11 years ago. Almost 149 million payments were processed in January, which corresponds to a growth of approximately 21% compared to the same month 2022.

Diagram - Number of processed payments in the payment system Payments in Real Time.