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Top 50 U.S. Issuers of Visa and Mastercard Credit Cards — 2020

The 50 largest issuers of consumer and commercial credit cards carrying the Visa and Mastercard brands held $634.19 billion in outstanding receivables at year-end 2020. This was a decline of 14.3% from year-end 2019. New to the top 50 was Continental Finance with a 43.2% increase in outstandings. There were only 6 other issuers among the top 50 that showed increases in outstandings—Goldman Sachs (up 129.8%), VyStar CU (up 12.0%), MUFG Union Bank (up 9.5%), Pentagon FCU (up 2.2%), Navy FCU (up 0.2%) and First Premier Bank (up 0.1%). Among the 50 largest issuers ranked by purchase volume, t...

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