Unknown information about the payment system IRISthe system for free transportation money among friends, and DIAS S.A., the hub that connects all banks for money transfers, was presented today (6.12.2024) in the morning by the Managing Director of DIAS, Stavroula Kambouridou, speaking to SKAI.
The DIAS consultant emphasized that “the IRIS money transfer system currently has 3.5 million users when on January 1, 2021 it had 500,000, while 100,000 users are added daily.”
He also stated that “in Greece there are 6.5 million mobile banking users” while he estimated that “500 billion will be transferred through the DIAS system this year. euros and from IRIS the corresponding amount will rise to 6 billion. euro”.
“We have written over 1 million for the software. lines of code,” added Ms. Kambouridou.
Explaining the limits of money transfer through IRIS, Mrs. Kambouridou said that:
- The first concerns free money transfers from friends with a limit of 500 euros
- The second concerns payments of freelancers (plumbers, lawyers, accountants, electricians, etc.) with a limit of 1,000 euros. For this version, 560,000 freelancers have registered out of a total of 720,000 that exist in the country
“DIAS has been growing for 4 years with double-digit growth and has reached the cards that are the competitive medium, while IRIS has been growing at a triple-digit rate for the last 4 years” underlined Mrs. Kambouridou.
Finally, she referred to the most recent version of IRIS, IRIS e-Commerce, which is used by 7,000 e-shops throughout the country, most of which are pharmacies, “pharmacists are amazing,” she commented.
Asked, finally, whether he is a banker or a specialist in computers, Mrs. Kambouridou explained that “I am a person of technology, I am an electrical engineer. I learned code at the University of Athens which was my first degree and at Stanford University which was my second degree (Master of Science (MSc) in Electromechanical Engineering).