Mastercard and Corpay Cross-Border Payments

Mastercard has made a $300-million investment in the cross-border business unit of Corpay, a corporate payments company whose shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The companies are already partners for Mastercard branded purchasing, fleet and prepaid commercial cards issued in the US. Collectively, those cards generate more than $50 billion annually in purchase […]

Discover Financial Services Results—2024

Total credit card volume (purchases and cash advances) was $224.58 billion for Discover Financial Services (DFS) in 2024, a decline of 3.5%. Cash advances were 5.49% of total volume, down from 6.39% in 2023. Outstanding credit card receivables at year-end 2024 were up 0.5% to $102.79 billion.

Crédit Agricole and Worldline Merchant JV

France is the largest payment card market in the European Economic Area with purchase volume exceeding $770 billion annually. However, card acceptance and merchant acquiring in France is poised for disruption.

Advent Wants Nuvei

Nuvei processed more than $200.00 billion in payments (up nearly 59%) and generated $1.19 billion in revenue (up 41%) in 2023.

Visa to Acquire Pismo

Brazil-based banking and payment software provider Pismo will be acquired by Visa for $1 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2023.
Pismo received $118 million in two rounds of funding (2016 and 2021) from investors including Accel Partners, Amazon and Softbank.