Exclusive travel-related experiences through Visa Destinations have been incorporated into Visa’s recent refresh of three Visa Infinite card products on the market worldwide. Those cards are marketed to affluent consumers and high-end business travelers.
To meet demand, IST has created Metal Design Labs, which gives issuers the opportunity to work with Idemia’s designers, engineers and manufacturing experts and create samples and prototypes for new metal card concepts.
UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express and Diners Club brand credit, debit and prepaid cards issued in the Asia– Pacific region generated $15.527 trillion in purchase volume in 2025. On a local currency basis, this was a decline of 8.2% from 2024.
Last month, the company launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), an end-to-end orchestration service that supports use cases such as when AI agents build websites and design marketing campaigns and require the ability to accept micropayments.
Blockchains are built to easily facilitate interoperable transaction flows, which makes them ideal for when multiple parties participate in the same transaction. No complicated integrations are required as is the case with co-branded airline cards that provide extra loyalty points to cardholders based on purchases made at select restaurant, rideshare company and other merchants that partner with the issuer.
Sweden-based Nordiska plans to expand throughout Europe by offering embedded finance services as an orchestration layer rather than as a core banking service. The company’s modular platform delivers financial products such as banking-as-a-service, cards-as-a-service, white-label and co-branded credit card programs and card-linked loyalty programs via a single API. Nordiska sees opportunities to provide co-branded credit […]
OnePay is embedded in the Walmart ecosystem, including being prominently displayed on Walmart’s website. Walmart is the second largest US retailer and the second largest ecommerce provider in the US.
The 50 largest issuers of cards in Europe ranked by 2025 purchase volume on credit, debit and prepaid consumer, small business and commercial cards are shown on page 7 of Issue 1311. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1311. Those cards carried either the global brands of Visa, Mastercard, American Express and […]
Digital processing technology that covers the entire payment value chain has been available from Casablanca-based S2M for over 40 years. S2M provides more than 160 customers in over 35 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia with card issuing and merchant account processing and card personalization services. S2M customers include national switches and payment […]
The largest US issuers of Mastercard and Visa consumer credit and consumer debit (and prepaid) card products are ranked in issue 1310 based on purchase volume in 2025. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1310. The Consumer Purchase Volume columns exclude spending for goods and services tied to small business, corporate, purchasing […]
