Qatar Central Bank announced the registration of about 51.7 million transactions on all payment systems in the State of Qatar at an estimated value of 16 billion and 133 million riyals during the month of July 2025, indicating that the points of sale received 51% of them, while the share of e -commerce was about 27%, while the payment system immediately acquired 20%, while the payment system through the mobile phone was at the last rank of about 2% of transactions. The Central Bank of Qatar revealed through an explanatory infographic through its official account in the “X” social networking platform that the payment statistics using cards in the month of July included transactions on the devices of sales and e -commerce with a total of 12 billion and 584 million riyals, the share of the points of sale, including about 8 billion and 221 million riyals, with a number of transactions reached 40 million and 328 thousand transactions, while transactions on electronic commerce amounted to 4 billion and 363 million riyals, with a total number of transactions, 9 million and 180 thousand transactions.
In the same context, the “Central” indicated that the statistics of the immediate transfer systems recorded about 3 billion and 549 million riyals, as the value of the payment through the mobile phone (QMP) reached about 277 million and 52 thousand riyals through the implementation of 320 thousand transactions, and the total registered portfolios reached 1 million and 200 thousand, while the payment system “immediately” recorded one million and 869 thousand transactions worth 3 billion and 272 million riyals The total recorded accounts reached 3 million and 239 thousand accounts.
Qatar Central Bank is working to develop the infrastructure of payment systems and keep pace with the latest developments in the field of electronic payment and transfer systems of funds, the last of which was the launch of the immediate payment service (immediately), which is one of the leading services in the areas of payment and digital transfer in Qatar, which reflects the keenness of Qatar Central Bank to provide the best services to bank customers and financial institutions in the country, and meets their growing needs in line with the increasing demand for financial technology services, and facilitates Financial and commercial transactions between bank accounts for individuals and companies keep pace with the rapid development witnessed by the national economy.
The immediate payment service was designed immediately depending on a system based on the latest technologies and security standards, in order to maintain the security and confidentiality of the information that was created by the Qatar Central Bank to enable financial institutions to provide the service to its customers with reliability.
The development project includes new services that include: the immediate transfers service between accounts … the unified address service to perform the payments through the phone, the personal number, or the account number, the central system service to reduce fraud and money laundering operations, electronic bills payment service, delegation management services and direct deduction.
