Region: Canada

Visa and Mastercard Worldwide thru 3Q 2025

For the first nine months of 2025, debit, credit and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide with Visa and Mastercard brands generated $17.136 trillion in purchase volume.

Infineon NFC Chips for Prepaid Cards

The Infineon chips are sold with software that requires buyers to use their own smartphones to activate the cards. The software also lets buyers monitor their card’s balance after making a purchase.

FreedomPay and Nuvei Form Global Partnership

Multinational, enterprise-size merchants are the prospective customers for an in-store and digital commerce payment service that unites Nuvei and FreedomPay. The companies are integrating via Nuvei’s T2A protocol.

Global Brand Cards Worldwide — Midyear 2025

When measuring all purchase transactions on the global networks for the first six months of 2025, debit cards accounted for 65.45%, up 22 basis points (bps) versus the first six months of 2024.

POS Device Shipments—Part 2

There are 36.9 million devices featured in this issue. Of that amount, 63.35% were QR code readers, 24.48% were dongles, 7.90% were multilane and PIN entry or contactless-only PIN pads, 2.40% were non-PCI-certified devices and 1.87% were ECRs.