Visa’s Deal with Japan’s FTC
Under a voluntary plan, Visa will not leverage its position in the market to insist that acquirers use its authorization service to connect with issuers for credit card transactions.
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Asia–Pacific Global Network Cards 2024
When measuring annual purchase volume per card, Diners Club led with $9,058, followed by American Express with $7,331, Mastercard with $1,997, JCB with $1,912, Visa with $1,671 and UnionPay with $1,319.
Europe’s Top Card Issuers 2024
Among the top 50 were issuers from 31 countries. This group had collectively issued 1.00 billion payment cards as of December 31, 2024.
BVNK’s Stablecoin Infrastructure
Stablecoins are comparable in availability to real-time domestic-only payment rails including FedNow and the RTP network in the US, Faster Payments in the UK, UPI in India and Pix in Brazil. However, stablecoins are global.
Worldpay Expands in the UK with Santander Partnership
Worldpay offers more products and services in the UK than it does in the US where it has multiple bank partnerships. Santander is Worldpay’s first in the UK and second in Europe. It has a partnership deal with PTSB Bank in Ireland.
Merchant of Record Processing Model
Paddle handles billing for one-time purchases as well as monthly, quarterly and annual subscriptions, including trial offers, and takes care of all tax and regulatory compliance issues.
Thales Payment Services’ D1 Platform
Thales Payment Services’ cloud-native D1 digital platform supports delivery of card issuing and payment services, including push provisioning digital cards to mobile wallets, issuing virtual cards with dynamic credentials and real-time ordering and tracking of physical cards.
Card Issuance and Account Processing Transactions January through June 2025
In the first half of this year there were 26 acquisitions and corporate investment deals in companies that issue commercial and consumer credit, debit and prepaid cards and companies which provide card issuance processing and related support. Those transactions occurred in 16 jurisdictions. There were 10 financing deals involving commercial cards, 8 card issuance platform […]
Top 30 Issuers of Visa and Mastercard Consumer Card Products in the US — 2024
The largest US issuers of Visa and Mastercard consumer credit and consumer debit/prepaid card products are ranked below based on purchase volume for goods and services in 2024. The Consumer Purchase Volume columns exclude purchase volume tied to small business, corporate, purchasing and fleet commercial credit, debit and prepaid cards. The All Purchase Volume columns […]
US Debit Card Issuers Ranked 51st through 100th Largest — 2024
Consumer and commercial debit and prepaid cards issued by financial institutions that were the 100 largest in the US generated $3.118 trillion in purchase volume in 2024, up 2.6% from 2023. That purchase volume includes Visa and Mastercard networks as well as the domestic debit networks, including Star, Pulse, Nyce and Accel. For the ranking, […]