<p dir="ltr"><span>Financial Tribune- Citing data from Shapark, Iran's nationwide payment network, IBENA reported that the number of active debit cards during the period declined 8.75% compared to a month before when 106 million cards were used. <br> Debit cards accounted for 94% of the all the active bank cards with 91 million. <br> In addition, there were close to 5.6 million active gift cars during the month. <br> Only bank cards with at least one transaction a month were considered in the report. <br> The number of credit cards that had transactions during the period under review registered the highest decline at 71.79%. <br> Banking cards issued by Bank Melli Iran accounted for 22.20% of all active cards followed by Bank Saderat and Bank Mellat that respectively accounted for 11.29% and 11.05% of all active bank cards during the month to April 20. <br> The lowest number of bank cards belonged to Parsian Bank, holding 2.53% of all cards followed by Ansar Bank and Maskan Bank, respectively with 2.86% and 3.11% of the cards. <br> Cards issued by Parsian Bank had the lion’s share of gift and cards with 21.17%, Mellat Bank 69.3% and Bank Melli Iran had a 51.2% share of debit cards. <br> <br class="t-last-br"> </span></p>