Total transaction volume doubled in 2008 compared to previous year and reached 210 billion soums. Turnover of trade-service enterprises with use of plastic cards made up 150 billion soums in 2008, which also doubled compared to 2007.

NBU emitted 381,600 plastic cards on so-called salary projects. About 227.4 billion soums were transferred to the special plastic cards in 2008 or 1.6 times up year-on-year.

The bank also issues overdraft credit cards on salary projects. The bank issues over 3,000 overdraft cards in 2008 and issued credits for 6.2 billion soums (twice up year-on-year).