Featurespace Fraud Fighting

Annually, Featurespace protection and detection technologies review 100 billion events that cover 500 million consumers.

POS Terminal Manufacturer Shipments Worldwide

Shipments of point-of-sale terminals worldwide that have been assessed and validated according to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard totaled 121.8 million in 2023. Included in that number are Android-based and traditional mains-powered and battery-powered terminals. These devices included portable and desktop models manufactured with or without built-in printers. Also included here are […]

The 50 Largest Payment Card Issuers in Asia–Pacific

The Asia–Pacific (APAC) region’s top 50 issuers of UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Diners Club and American Express as well as domestic-only credit, debit and prepaid cards are included in charts on pages 12 and 13. Those 50 issued 7.12 billion consumer and commercial general purpose payment cards that generated purchase volume of $11.232 trillion […]

ACI and Mastercard Partner to Deliver Faster Payments

Typically, payments made online and in-store are authorized in real time, but clearing and settlement occur later in large batches between merchant acquirers and the networks. Immediate clearing and faster settlement of card payments will help merchants manage their cash flow and receive funds more quickly. Mastercard plans on providing the necessary network capability by […]

Worldpay and Capital One Fight False Positive Ecommerce Fraud

Capital One is the 4th largest credit card issuer and 12th largest debit card issuer in the US. To reduce incidences in which its cardholders have their transactions falsely declined while shopping online, Capital One has opened its Direct Data Share API to Worldpay, the third largest merchant acquirer in the US. Even when it […]

US Credit, Debit and Prepaid Data Projected

Purchase volume generated by general purpose and private label credit, debit and prepaid cards issued in the US—consumer and commercial products combined—was $11.580 trillion in 2023, up 5.8% from 2022. Credit card purchase volume was $6.105 trillion, up 6.0% from 2022. Debit and prepaid card purchase volume was $5.475 trillion, up 5.5% from 2022. Credit […]

CPI Offers New Infineon Chip

A dual-interface chip that enables a greater degree of design options for credit and debit cards is now available from CPI, the largest US-based payment card manufacturer.

Card Manufacturers  in 2023— Part 2

Manufacturers of barcode and scratch card products that don’t have chips or magstripes were led by Inkript Cards with 979.2 million, Trasna (formerly Workz Media) with 864.7 million and KL Hi-Tech Secure Print with 180.0 million.