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.

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.

Latin America’s 50 Largest Merchant Acquirers — 2024

The 50 largest merchant card processing portfolios in Latin America and the Caribbean (LA&C) processed 48.27 billion Visa and Mastercard credit, debit and prepaid card transactions in 2024, an increase of 8.9% from 2023. Visa and Mastercard cards were accepted for payment at 17.9 million active merchant outlets in LA&C. For the complete ranking, log […]