Interac, Visa, Mastercard and American Express brand credit, debit and prepaid commercial, small business and consumer cards issued in Canada generated 17.89 billion purchase transactions in 2024, up 6.7% from 2023. The national debit card brand of Canada, Interac, has always held the largest market share position among all brands when measuring purchase transactions. However, […]
Cardholders will be able to use an issuer’s mobile app or visit the issuer’s digital banking site to select BNPL for a purchase they just made. Or they can use those same channels to preauthorize an amount for BNPL, a feature that would likely be used for more expensive purchases.
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.
Combined, they held a market capitalization of $447.25 billion as of December 31, 2024.
More than 130 airlines are Worldpay customers.
These global brand cards are projected to generate 332.64 billion more purchase transactions in 2029 than they did in 2024.
Unlike full-service banks, which can use consumer deposits to fund loans, Affirm and similar companies must seek wholesale funding through capital markets.
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.
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.
Purchase volume generated by the 150 largest credit card issuers in the world reached $13.512 trillion in 2023. This group represented issuers from 52 countries. The 10 largest issuers accounted for 45.1% of purchase volume among the 150 largest. Those 10 issuers included 5 from the US that collectively accounted for $4.032 trillion and 5 […]
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