The tables shown here list 123 investments (seed, venture, strategic, private equity and debt funding) in 37 countries in the merchant acquiring and processing sector of the payment card industry in 2022. 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 $6.85 billion in 2022. North America had the most transactions with 36. The value of those deals was a combined $2.46 billion. Checkout.com was the largest deal. It received $1.00...