Asia–Pacific Archives

Card-Present Transactions for Online Merchants

Software that enables card-present transactions for online merchants by using a buyer’s phone to enter a PIN is available from start-up Burbank.

Digital Asset Infrastructure for PSPs and Acquirers

Utila’s digital asset adoption technology is enterprise-grade and was designed for the high-speed operations needed by payment service providers, payment gateways, issuers of stablecoin products, neobanks and others.

NFC-based E-Receipts

Pi-xcels, which has three patents pending or registered on its technology, estimates the number of terminals capable of using NFC-based e-receipt technology at 40 million worldwide.

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.

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.