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Area of Interest: Payment Card Issuing

Mastercard Prestige Cards

Through The Mastercard Collection, World cardholders will have access to dining, travel and entertainment benefits in their home countries and when traveling to other countries.

Visa’s Deal with Japan’s FTC

Under a voluntary plan, Visa will not leverage its position in the market to insist that acquirers use its authorization service to connect with issuers for credit card transactions.

Asia–Pacific Global Network Cards 2024

When measuring annual purchase volume per card, Diners Club led with $9,058, followed by American Express with $7,331, Mastercard with $1,997, JCB with $1,912, Visa with $1,671 and UnionPay with $1,319.

Europe’s Top Card Issuers 2024

Among the top 50 were issuers from 31 countries. This group had collectively issued 1.00 billion payment cards as of December 31, 2024.

BVNK’s Stablecoin Infrastructure

Stablecoins are comparable in availability to real-time domestic-only payment rails including FedNow and the RTP network in the US, Faster Payments in the UK, UPI in India and Pix in Brazil. However, stablecoins are global.

Thales Payment Services’ D1 Platform

Thales Payment Services’ cloud-native D1 digital platform supports delivery of card issuing and payment services, including push provisioning digital cards to mobile wallets, issuing virtual cards with dynamic credentials and real-time ordering and tracking of physical cards.

US Debit Card Issuers Ranked 51st through 100th Largest — 2024

Consumer and commercial debit and prepaid cards issued by financial institutions that were the 100 largest in the US generated $3.118 trillion in purchase volume in 2024, up 2.6% from 2023. That purchase volume includes Visa and Mastercard networks as well as the domestic debit networks, including Star, Pulse, Nyce and Accel. For the ranking, […]

Card Industry Litigation Updates in the US and UK

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled unanimously that Visa and Mastercard rules pertaining to default multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) violate competition laws in the UK and Ireland.