Rapyd’s Fintech as a Service
Rapyd’s purchase of PayU’s merchant business in Africa was the company’s fourth acquisition of a nonbank acquirer.
Area of Interest: Payment Card Issuing
US Card Networks at Midyear 2025
Purchase transactions for goods and services generated by Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover credit, debit and prepaid cards totaled 81.50 billion for the period January 1 through June 30, 2025.
50 Largest Card Issuers — 2024 Middle East and Africa Region
Cards in circulation carrying the Visa and Mastercard brands reached 192.5 million on December 31, 2024, up 3.5%. They accounted for 86.3% of all global brand and domestic-only brand cards in circulation from these 50 issuers, up from 84.2% in 2023.
US Card Network Results — First Quarter 2025
Mastercard had the highest growth in purchase volume market share when measuring only credit cards. The company’s share increased 27 basis points (bps) to 24.94%.
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.