Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) publishes credit and charge card statistics covering billings, rollover balances, card counts, and charge-off metrics for Singapore’s payment card market. Annual and monthly CSV datasets document definitions aligned with MAS reporting, with rollover balances stated at month-end. Financial analysts and consumer credit researchers can study card usage from 1989 through the published coverage window. Use this MAS collection for open data on Singapore credit and charge card activity.
Official description
Credit and charge cards refer to any article, whether in physical or electronic form, of a kind commonly known as a credit card or charge card or any similar article intended for use in purchasing goods or services on credit, whether or not the card is valid for immediate use.
Credit card rollover balance refers to the balance that incurs interest charges in the event that the credit card charges are not settled by the payment due date. The balance includes the minimum payment not settled by the due date and the rollover balance after payment of the minimum sum.
For rollover balances and the number of main and supplementary cards, the figures given are as of end of each month.
Note: Total billings, rollover balances and written-off bad debts are in S$ millions. Charge-off rates are percentages.
Monetary Authority of Singapore CSV of monthly credit and charge card statistics for Singapore from 1991 through August 2015. Columns cover the number of main and supplementary cards, total billings, and rollover balances. Financial analysts, economists, and researchers track consumer credit usage, card adoption, and revolving debt trends over more than two decades. The series ends in 2015.
Monetary Authority of Singapore annual CSV of credit and charge card statistics from 1989 through 2014, covering main and supplementary cards, total billings, rollover balances, bad debts written off, and charge-off rates. Financial analysts use the historical series for consumer-credit and card-market research in Singapore.