The 150 largest acquirers of general purpose payment card transactions based on the number of card purchases at merchants they handled during calendar year 2014 are listed on page 7. Collectively they represented 41 countries. They acquired 179.51 billion credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions last year, up from 159.27 billion in 2013. There were 38 acquirers that handled more than 1 billion card payment transactions in 2014, up from 37 the prior year. The 3 largest acquirers each handled more than 10 billion card transactions from their merchants in the United States. Also handling m...