Amex has developed the ability to analyze card spending, call center activity, customer satisfaction and engagement data to monitor metrics in the Amex App that encourage the pursuit and redemption of benefits and statement credits.
JPMorgan Chase, Amex, Capital One, Citi and Bank of America, the 5 largest issuers, accounted for 69.62% of the US industry total for purchase volume for the first six months of 2025. This was up 78 bps from the same period in 2024.
Credit, debit and prepaid cards issued in Europe on the Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Diners Club global brand networks generated purchase volume of $5.517 trillion in 2024. This was up 14.5% over 2023 on a local currency basis.
Venmo, Square Cash, Apple Cash and Google Pay, which are consumer-to-consumer funds transfers initiated by third-party apps, accounted for 94.65% of the $216.89 billion in outflows last year.
Casap offers issuers technology they can deploy to automate their back offices to fight first-party fraud, which could involve a measure of deceit on the part of a cardholder.
Car IQ technology is embedded in the Visa Commercial Integrated Partners platform, which is available to all Visa commercial card issuers in the US.
Based on purchase volume in 2024, the 20 largest Visa, Mastercard and Discover brand prepaid card issuers are ranked here. As of December 31, 2024, this group had issued 435.1 million cards, up 1.3% from cards in circulation issued by the top 20 at year-end 2023. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue […]
Rapyd’s purchase of PayU’s merchant business in Africa was the company’s fourth acquisition of a nonbank acquirer.
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.
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.
