CREDIT card usage grew by 46 percent as of end-June 2017 from a year earlier, Visa said on Wednesday, on the back of growing safety and security concerns by consumers.

Citing a study, Visa said that six out of 10 Filipinos preferred to make electronic payments than fork out cash, and 62 percent said they believed carrying cash was unsafe.

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