Mastercard Commerce Media
Mastercard’s program generates a 22 times return on advertising spend (ROAS) for merchants, superior results to what they obtain from third-party CLO specialists.
Area of Interest: Payment Card Issuing
Payment Card Manufacturer Shipments—2024
The manufacturers listed in Issue 1295 shipped 4.10 billion payment cards in 2024, including 3.62 billion chip cards and 472.2 million magnetic-stripe-only cards. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1295. These companies also shipped 12.5 million cards that used barcodes, scratch-off panels or other means to initiate transactions but did not carry […]
Brex Commercial Cards and Spend Management
Customers used Brex software to facilitate over $100 billion in total accounts payable over the last year. This includes card payments, transactions settled through the ACH, direct bill payments and wire transfers.
150 Largest Credit Card Portfolios Worldwide—2024
The 150 largest portfolios of outstanding receivables tied to Visa, UnionPay, Mastercard, American Express, JCB, Discover, Diners Club and domestic-market-only credit cards as of December 31, 2024, are ranked on page 6. Issuers from the US held a 46.8% market share among owners of the 150 largest portfolios. China-based issuers were second largest with a 32.2% share.
Middle East and Africa Global Brand Network Cards — 2024
Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Diners Club cards issued in the Middle East and Africa region generated $2.007 trillion in total volume in 2024, an increase of 10.9% on a local currency basis from 2023.
Payment Cards and Agentic Commerce
Committing to a purchase at the intent to buy, not when payment is applied, is one of several factors in agentic commerce that differ from the core paradigm associated with traditional ecommerce.
Household Debt and Credit Cards in the US — 2024
Card debt accounted for 7.41% of household debt in 2024, up from 7.05% in 2023.
Store Cards in the US — 2024
Purchase volume on private label store credit cards of $198.42 billion in 2024 was down 1.4% from 2023. Outstanding receivables on store cards slipped 2.5% to $127.13 billion.
Merchants Settle with Visa and Mastercard
Visa will pay $119.7 million and Mastercard $79.8 million to settle remaining claims in a class-action lawsuit filed on March 8, 2016, pertaining to fraud liability regulations on card payments processed from POS terminals without chip card readers.
US Mastercard/Visa Credit Card Issuers–Midyear 2025
The 100 largest US issuers of Mastercard and Visa credit cards generated $2.182 trillion in purchase volume (spending for goods and services) for the period January 1 through June 30, 2025. This was up 4.4% ($91.70 billion) over the same period in 2024 for the 100 largest issuers.