The top 50 issuers of UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Diners Club and American Express as well as domestic-only credit, debit and prepaid cards in the Asia–Pacific (APAC) region are included in charts on pages 10 and 11.
Visa Inc., owner of VisaNet, the largest payment card network in the world based on merchant acceptance locations, has spent several years building Visa Direct, a capability within VisaNet for delivering funds transfers including remittances, payouts to independent contractors and other use cases for consumers and small businesses.
Protocols developed by the Fido Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have been combined to create public-key/private-key cryptographic message exchanges called passkeys, a replacement for knowledge-based passwords used to authenticate online transactions.
Mastercard added seven startups to its crypto accelerator program. The companies specialize in payments to merchants, remittances, privacy and loyalty, among other areas. Mastercard says that 350 companies have participated in the program since 2014.
The 150 largest acquirers of general purpose credit, debit and prepaid card payments from merchants worldwide are listed here based on transactions processed in 2021. Total transactions of 416.55 billion processed by this group increased 17.9% from 2020.
Payment cards shipped by the manufacturers listed here totaled 4.47 billion in 2021. Included in the 2021 shipment figures were 3.73 billion chip cards and 638.9 million magnetic-stripe-only cards.
Plaid launched Wallet Onboard, a product that allows developers to offer connections among more than 300 self-custody crypto wallets using a single integration and a UI that is familiar to existing Plaid users. Wallet Onboard is built on Plaid Link, a platform that lets consumers connect their financial accounts across thousands of fintech apps and services.
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region’s 36 largest acquirers of UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club/Discover and domestic-market-only brand card payments are ranked here. They handled credit, debit and prepaid card transactions from 39.7 million APAC region merchant outlets in 2021.
Point-of-sale terminal shipments worldwide reached 136.0 million in 2021, up 4.3% over 2020. Shipments of these devices by manufacturer and region are presented on pages 6 and 7. POS terminals counted include countertop, multilane, tablet and handheld devices with integrated chip and/or magnetic stripe card readers, unattended devices, terminals that can read QR codes and also accept cards and those that can read a biometric identifier and then facilitate a payment.
There were 68 merger and acquisition transactions in the merchant processing and acquiring sector of the payment card industry during the first six months of 2022.
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