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 March 2024

Payments and amount in the Bankgiro System

The number of payments in March in the Bankgiro system amounted to 200 million transactions, which corresponds to a decrease of 10.3% 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 March was SEK 1274 billion, which corresponds to an decrease of 14.3% 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 BiR has been strong since inception about 12 years ago. In March 2024, BiR was closed down as real time payments are now handled by Riksbanken, Sweden’s central bank. This as a part of the transformation of the payment market in Sweden, which has been going on for several years. No payments was therefore made in BiR during March.

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