Protecting Acquirers from Fraudulent Merchants
Giving acquirers and payment facilitators of merchant transactions intelligence to uncover fraudulent merchants hiding in their portfolios is the business of EverC. The company’s MerchantView product crawls the internet continuously to scan and monitor factors that impact a merchant’s exposure to risk. MerchantView finds difficult-to-see connections between properly vetted merchants and any hidden submerchants submitting […]
Investments in Merchant Acquiring/Processing—2021
The tables shown here list 128 investments (seed, venture, corporate, private equity and IPO) in 33 countries in the merchant acquiring and processing sector of the payment card industry in 2021. Those transactions were first identified in 12 tables published monthly over the last year in prior issues of the Nilson Report. Those issues are […]
Domestic-Only Card Issuers — Credit
More than 90 domestic-only general purpose debit and/or credit card brands operate worldwide. There are 30 domestic-only credit card brands and all operate outside the U.S. The 25 largest domestic-only credit issuers are ranked here by purchase volume for goods and services in 2020. The top 25 domestic-only debit card issuers were shown in issue […]
Card Manufacturers—Part 2
Shipments of payment cards in 2020 by manufacturer were published in issue 1209. The table on the next page shows shipments in 2020 by manufacturer of SIM phone cards, transportation/ticketing cards, private label prepaid/gift cards, non-SIM phone cards and nonpayment cards such as those for identification, access control, membership/loyalty, promotions, healthcare, driver’s licenses, etc. To […]
Top 150 Credit Card Issuers Worldwide by Purchase Volume
Purchase volume (spending for goods and services) generated by the 150 largest issuers of credit cards totaled $11.605 trillion in 2020, a decrease of 7.4% from $12.531 trillion in 2019. The top 10 issuers accounted for 43.3% of purchase volume among the top 150. Those 10 issuers included 6 issuers from China that collectively accounted […]