{"id":2336,"date":"2026-02-15T06:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:28:23","slug":"kuwait-credit-card-spending-hits-record-kd-5-3-billion-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/02\/15\/kuwait-credit-card-spending-hits-record-kd-5-3-billion-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Credit Card Spending Hits Record KD 5.3 Billion in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit card spending in Kuwait surged to a record KD 5.3 billion in 2025, up from KD 4.6 billion in 2024, according to the Central Bank of Kuwait. The 13.7% annual increase represents a rise of about KD 638 million in just one year.<\/p><p>The highest spending was recorded in the third quarter (July\u2013September), driven largely by summer travel and tourism expenses. Strong year-end promotions and shopping festivals also helped sustain high transaction levels in the final quarter.<\/p><p>The central bank noted that credit card use has been steadily rising throughout the year, reflecting changing consumer habits and growing preference for digital payments across Kuwait.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit card spending in Kuwait surged to a record KD 5.3 billion in 2025, up from KD 4.6 billion in 2024, according to the Central Bank of Kuwait. The 13.7% annual increase represents a rise of about KD 638 million in just one year. The highest spending was recorded in the third quarter (July\u2013September), driven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kuwait-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}