There were 700 transactions in card payments and related fields in 2022. There were 382 transactions in the first half of the year and 318 in the second half. Those deals occurred in 68 countries. The top category was merchant processing and acquiring with 245 mergers, acquisitions and financing deals—35% of the total. Other categories included payment card issuing, BNPL and other alternative lending, fraud and security and mobile payments....