Region: Asia–Pacific

Asia–Pacific Global Network Cards 2024

When measuring annual purchase volume per card, Diners Club led with $9,058, followed by American Express with $7,331, Mastercard with $1,997, JCB with $1,912, Visa with $1,671 and UnionPay with $1,319.

NewPOS Mobile Terminal

Expected end users for the New9830 include small and midsized retailers, restaurants, clinics and hospitality providers.

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.

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.