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Top 45 Merchant Acquirers in Europe—2025

There were 55 merchant acquirer participants in our annual survey of Europe’s largest portfolios of merchant card processing contracts. Among that group, 10 handled only transactions from payment cards usable in their domestic markets. The others listed in charts presented here handled global brand and domestic-only cards. For the complete ranking, and all charts and tables, log in and download Issue 1309. Total transactions processed by the 55 acquirers was 228.96 billion, up 5.9%. The value of goods and serv...

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The 45 Largest Merchant Acquirers in Europe — 2025

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