Visa and Mastercard Worldwide thru 3Q 2025
For the first nine months of 2025, debit, credit and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide with Visa and Mastercard brands generated $17.136 trillion in purchase volume.
Area of Interest: Merchant Acquiring
Investments in Merchant Processing, Acquiring—2025
The largest deals were the $190-million investment in Dojo, a UK-based processor with 140,000 customers, and Flatpay in Denmark, which provides POS terminals, processing support and a payment gateway.
Stock Market Results by Payment Processors in 2025
The 40 largest publicly traded payment processors, mostly those that support merchants but including some that also support issuers, are featured here.
Walmart Opposes Merchant Settlement with Mastercard, Visa and Top Card Issuers
Walmart would prefer going to trial versus accepting the out-ofcourt settlement. The retailer states the proposed settlement “ignores the best possible relief that the class stands to obtain if the pending antitrust claims (which have already survived summary judgment) are vindicated at trial.”
FreedomPay and Nuvei Form Global Partnership
Multinational, enterprise-size merchants are the prospective customers for an in-store and digital commerce payment service that unites Nuvei and FreedomPay. The companies are integrating via Nuvei’s T2A protocol.
Global Brand Card Transactions Projected Worldwide — 2030
Asia–Pacific is the top region for global network cards. Purchase transactions are projected to reach 518.56 billion in 2030, up 35.4% from 2025.
Jifiti White-Label Support for AI-based Lending
White-label embedded lending platform provider Jifiti can provide the orchestration layer that lenders need to facilitate an entire AI-based lending process, including loan origination, know your customer (KYC) and know your business (KYB) compliance, verification of identity and documents, fraud protection, underwriting of credit and more. Lenders that link to Jifiti don’t need to replace their existing core systems. Jifiti automates their systems to deliver real-time credit decisioning.
Worldwide Card Acceptance Locations for Global Brands — 2025
Merchant locations worldwide that accept payments from cards that carry the global network brands—Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, UnionPay, JCB and Diners Club—continue to show steady growth.
Card Fraud Losses Worldwide — 2024
US cards were tied to 41.87% of fraud losses worldwide. Overwhelmingly, fraud losses in the US are a card-not-present (CNP) problem. Among all world regions, the US ranks first in dollars lost to CNP fraud.
Fime Testing, Certification and Strategy Consulting
Fime’s fully automated testing platform and its testing services businesses generate 80% of the company’s revenues. Those revenues come from three markets—payments, digital identity and smart mobility (ticketing).