Most micro merchants are counted along with other small merchants that are aggregated together by payment facilitators (payfacs) that serve these customers, accounting for an estimated 30 million acceptance locations worldwide.
Gross card fraud is expressed in basis points (cents) per $100 in total volume. In 2022, it was 6.81¢ per $100 in total volume worldwide. The prior year, the figure was 6.61¢ per $100.
Countries in which both domestic-only credit and debit card products are issued include South Korea (eight bank brands), Brazil (Elo), Russia (Mir), India (RuPay) and Turkey (Troy).
The 10 largest issuers accounted for 58.7% of purchase volume in 2022 among the top 150. The 5 issuers from China dominated the top 10.
Payment card shipments in 2022 by manufacturer were published in issue 1251.
Superlogic’s software can be used by card issuers, airlines, hotels, restaurants, retailers and others to make managing their loyalty programs more efficient.
There were 16.99 billion global general purpose cards in circulation on June 30, 2023. This was up 5.2% from June 30, 2022.
Visa and Mastercard cards issued by the 50 largest accounted for 73.7% of all Mastercard and Visa cards issued in LA&C.
Issuers from the US held a 42.4% market share among the largest portfolios, followed by issuers from China with a 35.6% share.
Of the 14.7 million devices shown here that were shipped in 2022, 75.19% were QR code terminals, 12.80% were PIN pads, 6.44% were ECRs…
