Global Brand Cards Worldwide — Midyear 2025
When measuring all purchase transactions on the global networks for the first six months of 2025, debit cards accounted for 65.45%, up 22 basis points (bps) versus the first six months of 2024.
Region: Middle East and Africa
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.
Domestic-Only Debit and Credit Cards Worldwide — 2024
There are more than 90 general purpose card brands worldwide that are domestic only and general purpose. Collectively, they generated $1.163 trillion in purchase volume in 2024.
Top 150 Debit Card Issuers Worldwide — 2024
The 10 largest issuers among the top 150 accounted for 54.8% of purchase volume in 2024.
POS Terminal Manufacturer Shipments Worldwide — 2024
Newland Payment Technology was the largest manufacturer in 2024. Its global total included 3.5 million portable battery-powered and 22,000 desktop Android terminals.
Middle East and Africa Global Brand Network Cards — 2024
Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Diners Club cards issued in the Middle East and Africa region generated $2.007 trillion in total volume in 2024, an increase of 10.9% on a local currency basis from 2023.
Real-Time Dynamic Currency Conversion
Over the last 20 years, the company has developed its proprietary algorithm, supported by machine learning technology, to arbitrage foreign exchange tied to more than $10 billion in transactions in 17 countries in Europe and Southern Africa.
SanuPay Building Card Payment Switch in Ethiopia
The company holds a license for Way4 merchant acquiring and card account processing system software from OpenWay and is finalizing construction of a payment processing switch in Ethiopia.
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.
50 Largest Card Issuers — 2024 Middle East and Africa Region
Cards in circulation carrying the Visa and Mastercard brands reached 192.5 million on December 31, 2024, up 3.5%. They accounted for 86.3% of all global brand and domestic-only brand cards in circulation from these 50 issuers, up from 84.2% in 2023.