Investments in Merchant Processing, Acquiring—2024
In 2024, the value of 67 investment transactions for which the monetary value was announced amounted to $5.51 billion. This compares to 85 deals with announced values totaling $8.90 billion in 2023.
Region: Asia–Pacific
Market Cap Performance for Card Issuers and Networks
Every month we publish a snapshot of the stock market performances of more than 130 companies that earn revenue from customers in the payment card industry. This issue features the four publicly traded card payment networks and the 20 publicly traded issuers of payment cards. Combined, the card networks held a market capitalization of more […]
Payment Cards Projected Worldwide 2024—2029
General purpose and private label credit, debit and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide are projected to reach 31.13 billion by December 31, 2029. At year-end 2024 that figure was 27.76 billion.
Market Cap Performances by Payment Processors in 2024
Combined, they held a market capitalization of $447.25 billion as of December 31, 2024.
Worldpay and Mastercard Virtual Cards for Travel Agents
More than 130 airlines are Worldpay customers.
Global Brand Card Transactions Projected Worldwide
These global brand cards are projected to generate 332.64 billion more purchase transactions in 2029 than they did in 2024.
Cloud Code’s Payment Broadcast Speakers
The top selling broadcast speakers available from Cloud Code are the CS50, CS51 and CS60 models.
Global Brand Cards Worldwide — Midyear 2024
Visa, UnionPay, Mastercard, American Express, JCB and Discover/Diners Club brand credit, debit and prepaid cards combined generated 363.93 billion purchase transactions for goods and services worldwide from January 1 through June 30, 2024. This was a 13.1% increase from the same period in 2023.
Worldwide Card Acceptance Locations for Global Brands — Midyear 2024
Card-not-present and card-present locations grew by double digits over the last 12 months. Card-present growth was fueled by softPOS—the use of smartphones and tablet devices, mostly Android-based—that can accept card payments without the need for any PCI-compliant peripheral device.
Lakala is Top PSP for Card Payment Acceptance in China
Among all PSPs in China, Lakala ranks as the largest when measuring card transactions processed. Card brands accepted include UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB and Discover. Financial settlement with merchants for all card brands is made through UnionPay.
