EghtesadOnline: Banks have received 100,000 requests for credit cards for which Justice Shares can be used as collateral, an official with the Central Security Depository of Iran (CDSI) said.

EghtesadOnline: The Central Bank of Iran on Sunday increased the credit card limit by four times allowing banks to offer up to 2 billion rials ($8,000) in credit.

EghtesadOnline: More than 206,000 credit cards were used in the fifth month of the Iranian fiscal year that started in March -- a growth of 8.3% compared with the month before.