In 2007 (as of August 1, 2007) Belarusbank’s branches sold “American Express” cheques in the amount of USD 1.9 mln and EUR 3 mln (including USD 0.4 mln and EUR 0.7 mln in July), and bought cheques in the amount of USD 2.6 mln and EUR 1.9 mln (including USD 0.5 mln and EUR 0.7 mln in July).
The number of retail international bank transfers during 7 months of 2007 grew by 76% as compared to the same period of 2006 (1,253 transfers in 2006 and 2,168 transfers in 2007).
The number of Western Union transfers in 7 months of 2007 grew by 19% reaching 96.1 thousand transactions, the amount of transactions grew by 28% and made USD 32.9 mln (including 15.2 thousand transactions and USD 5.4 mln in July).
As of August 2007 551 Western Union offices were opened (the number of offices grew by 10 offices), 23 more offices are in the course of opening.