Global Brand Cards Worldwide — Midyear 2025

When measuring all purchase transactions on the global networks for the first six months of 2025, debit cards accounted for 65.45%, up 22 basis points (bps) versus the first six months of 2024.

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.

Transaction Moment Ads from Rokt for Card Issuers

Typically, media platforms are optimized toward clicks and views. However, messages from Rokt are not banners placed within the peripheral view of a cardholder. They are delivered when cardholders are financially engaged. Presenting the right message at the right time improves acceptance.

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).

U.S. Bank’s Split BNPL Card

U.S. Bank, the sixth largest U.S. credit card issuer based on purchase volume, created Split Card to boost new credit card account acquisitions.

Card Manufacturers — Part 2

The first part of our annual ranking of card manufacturers was published in Issue 1295. That article focused exclusively on payment cards shipped in 2024.