Investments in Merchant Processing, Acquiring—2024
In 2024, the value of 67 investment transactions for which the monetary value was announced amounted to $5.51 billion. This compares to 85 deals with announced values totaling $8.90 billion in 2023.
Region: Latin America
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.
Market Cap Performances by Payment Processors in 2024
Combined, they held a market capitalization of $447.25 billion as of December 31, 2024.
Worldpay and Mastercard Virtual Cards for Travel Agents
More than 130 airlines are Worldpay customers.
Global Brand Card Transactions Projected Worldwide
These global brand cards are projected to generate 332.64 billion more purchase transactions in 2029 than they did in 2024.
Global Brand Cards Worldwide — Midyear 2024
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.
Worldwide Card Acceptance Locations for Global Brands — Midyear 2024
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.
Top 150 Credit Card Issuers by Purchase Volume — 2023
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 […]
Card Fraud Losses Worldwide in 2023
Purchase volume combined with cash advances and cash withdrawals tied to global brand, domestic-market-only and private label credit, debit and prepaid cards was $51.435 trillion worldwide in 2023. This was an increase of 4.7% from $49.149 trillion in total volume in 2022.
