Credit, debit and prepaid commercial, small business and consumer cards issued in Canada carrying Visa, Interac, Mastercard and American Express brands generated 18.72 billion purchase transactions in 2025, up 4.7% from 2024. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1303. Interac, Canada’s national debit card brand, has always held the top market share […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are more than 90 general purpose card brands worldwide that are domestic only and general purpose. Collectively, they generated $1.163 trillion in purchase volume in 2024.
The 10 largest issuers among the top 150 accounted for 54.8% of purchase volume in 2024.
Newland Payment Technology was the largest manufacturer in 2024. Its global total included 3.5 million portable battery-powered and 22,000 desktop Android terminals.
For the complete ranking of Global Brand Card Network Results Worldwide in 2024, please log in and download Issue 1288.
