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Region: Asia–Pacific
Visa and Mastercard Worldwide thru 3Q 2025
For the first nine months of 2025, debit, credit and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide with Visa and Mastercard brands generated $17.136 trillion in purchase volume.
Investments in Merchant Processing, Acquiring—2025
The largest deals were the $190-million investment in Dojo, a UK-based processor with 140,000 customers, and Flatpay in Denmark, which provides POS terminals, processing support and a payment gateway.
Payment Cards Projected thru 2030
Among global brand general purpose cards, UnionPay cards are expected to hold a 33.78% share in 2030, followed by Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Amex and Discover/Diners Club.
Stock Market Results by Payment Processors in 2025
The 40 largest publicly traded payment processors, mostly those that support merchants but including some that also support issuers, are featured here.
M&A in Merchant Processing and Acquiring—2025
The largest transaction in 2025 was the purchase of global merchant acquirer Worldpay by its competitor, Global Payments. Worldpay had been owned by financial services technology company FIS and private equity firm GTCR. The deal, which closed this month, was valued at $24.25 billion.
Global Brand Card Transactions Projected Worldwide — 2030
Asia–Pacific is the top region for global network cards. Purchase transactions are projected to reach 518.56 billion in 2030, up 35.4% from 2025.
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.
Top 150 Credit Card Issuers — 2024
The 10 largest issuers accounted for 44.5% of purchase volume among the 150 largest.
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.