The PMC dataset currently contains information on electronic card-based payment transactions with card-based payment instruments issued by resident PSP by merchant category.
Quarterly data since 2022 to ongoing
Quarterly
For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the PMC underlying DSD (ECB_PAY10) maintained by the ECB.
Pure number, EUR (euro area Member States) and domestic currencies (non-euro area Member States)
Structured Feedback Reports and confirmation of data by NCBs
Revisions to historical data are transmitted alongside data reported for the latest reference period
PMC – electronic card payments sent by merchant category
National Central Banks in the European Union
DG-S Financial Statistics (MOE/FINS)
Logical and plausibility checking
Data are published 7 months after the reference period for semi-annual data. Quarterly data is published together with the semi-annual data (data for two quarters published at a time).
ECB’s Statistical Data Warehouse; time series to the ESCB; updated documentation in the ECB’s website
The reporting requirements were laid down in the:
Regulation ECB/2020/59 amending Regulation ECB 2013/43 on payment statistics
Guideline ECB/2021/13 on reporting requirements on payments statistics
Download the series catalogue containing a full list of series and associated metadata of the dataset PMC in CSV format (zipped)