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 […]

Koin Offers Fraud Fighting, BNPL and Payments

Koin states that its success is based on its AI models that were built exclusively using data from Latin America merchants and designed to predict how legitimate users should behave.

Rapyd’s Fintech as a Service

Rapyd’s purchase of PayU’s merchant business in Africa was the company’s fourth acquisition of a nonbank acquirer.

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.