{"id":74233,"date":"2016-05-30T20:26:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=74233"},"modified":"2016-05-30T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:26:33","slug":"only-23-of-dominicans-have-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/05\/30\/only-23-of-dominicans-have-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 23% of Dominicans have credit cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mastercard general manager in the Dominican Republic Delma Reyes says that studies show that 23% of Dominicans are credit card holders. Most Dominicans still use cash. Reyes says that official figures show that 43% of the population has a savings account, 28% use a payroll banking account and just 2.3% benefit from mortgage loans. <\/p>\n<p> She points out that the high volume of cash use reflects the predominance of the informal economy, and has negative effects on the safety of the population. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jq4xBnC9cT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldinero.com.do\/23976\/dominicanos-asumen-costo-del-uso-de-dinero-en-efectivo\/\">Dominicanos asumen costo del uso de dinero en efectivo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#171;Dominicanos asumen costo del uso de dinero en efectivo&#187; &#8212; Peri\u00f3dico elDinero\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eldinero.com.do\/23976\/dominicanos-asumen-costo-del-uso-de-dinero-en-efectivo\/embed\/#?secret=jq4xBnC9cT\" data-secret=\"jq4xBnC9cT\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercard general manager in the Dominican Republic Delma Reyes says that studies show that 23% of Dominicans are credit card holders. Most Dominicans still use cash. Reyes says that official figures show that 43% of the population has a savings account, 28% use a payroll banking account and just 2.3% benefit from mortgage loans. She &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/05\/30\/only-23-of-dominicans-have-credit-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}