Issue 1176 | May 2020
Companies featured in this issue include:
U.S. Issuers of Commercial Credit & Debit Cards
Amex Offers AR Support for Small Businesses
Payment Industry’s Response to Covid-19 Part 4
Mastercard’s Track Business Payment Service
Merchant Processing Fees in the United States
White Label Buy Now, Pay Later Service
Alliance of European Payment Specialists Formed
Top U.S. Issuers of Commercial Cards
U.S. Mastercard & Visa Commercial Card Issuers Ranked by Purchase Volume in 2019
U.S. Business Credit Cards 2019
U.S. Business Debit Cards 2019
U.S. Corporate Cards 2019
U.S. Commercial Prepaid Cards 2019
U.S. Purchasing & Fleet Cards 2019
U.S. Merchant Processing Fees—Purchase Volume and Fees Paid in 2019
U.S. Merchant Processing Fees—Purchase Volume and Fees Paid in 2019
Merchants in the United States paid $92.68 billion to accept general purpose and private label credit cards in 2019. Most of those fees went to issuers of Mastercard and Visa cards.
1. Visa/Mastercard
$67.59 billion in fees paid
2. American Express
$18.63 billion in fees paid
3. Private Label
$3.27 billion in fees paid
4. Discover
$3.19 billion in fees paid
Full access to the U.S. Merchant Processing Fees—Purchase Volume and Fees Paid in 2019 is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
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Merchant Processing Fees in the United States
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Credit, debit, and prepaid cards issued in the United States, general purpose and private label, combined to generate $7.584 trillion in purchase volume in 2019, up 8.2% over 2018. U.S. merchants that accepted those cards as payment for their goods and services paid $116.43 billion in processing fees, up 7.7%. Interchange fees...
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