The tables shown here list 102 investments (seed, venture, strategic, private equity and debt funding) in 31 countries in the merchant acquiring and processing sector of the payment card industry in 2023. Those transactions were previously identified monthly over the last year in prior issues of the Nilson Report. The value of all investment transactions for which the monetary value was announced amounted to $8.90 billion in 2023. Europe had the most transactions with 33. The value of those deals was a combined $7.78 billion. Stripe was the largest deal. It received $6.50 billion in n...