{"id":60612,"date":"2026-05-15T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=60612"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:31:08","slug":"algerias-finance-minister-country-records-remarkable-progress-in-electronic-payment-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=60612","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Finance Minister: Country Records &#8216;Remarkable Progress&#8217; in Electronic Payment Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria has achieved <strong>&#8216;remarkable progress&#8217;<\/strong> in electronic payments, driven by sweeping digital transformation measures implemented by public authorities in recent years, Finance Minister Abderrakim Boulazard told dzwatch.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a public session at the Council of the Nation, the minister highlighted advances in national payment system security standards, aimed at strengthening financial inclusion and streamlining financial services.<\/p>\n<p>Boulazard revealed that Algeria recorded <strong>22 million payment cards<\/strong> as of March, including 18 million issued by Algerie Poste, while ATMs reached <strong>4,713 units<\/strong> processing 235 million transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also confirmed that electronic payment terminals surged to <strong>104,000 devices<\/strong> by end of March, up from 78,000 the previous year, recording over 10 million transactions worth approximately <strong>55 billion DZD<\/strong> by end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Boulazard stressed the importance of citizen awareness campaigns and announced a new mechanism to facilitate settlement of outstanding payments to economic operators, set to be activated before year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria has achieved &#8216;remarkable progress&#8217; in electronic payments, driven by sweeping digital transformation measures implemented by public authorities in recent years, Finance Minister Abderrakim Boulazard told dzwatch. Speaking during a public session at the Council of the Nation, the minister highlighted advances in national payment system security standards, aimed at strengthening financial inclusion and streamlining &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}