Issue 1187 | Dec 2020
Companies featured in this issue include:
Card Fraud Worldwide—in Cents per $100 of Total Volume
Fraud by Type of Card in 2019
Card Fraud Projected Worldwide
Card Fraud Inside vs. Outside the U.S.
Global General Purpose Cards—Midyear 2020 vs. Midyear2019
Largest Debit Card Issuers Worldwide
Payment Card Manufacturers 2019
Top Manufacturer of Payment Cards—Ranked by Shipments in 2019
Top Manufacturer of Payment Cards—Visa and Mastercard
Top Manufacturer of Payment Cards—UnionPay
Top Manufacturer of Payment Cards—Other Payment
Top Manufacturer of Payment Cards—Other High Security
Global General Purpose Cards—Midyear 2020 vs. Midyear 2019
Global brand credit and debit cards—Visa, UnionPay, Mastercard, American Express, JCB and Discover/Diners—purchase volume and transactions are shown on page 8. Figures for debit cards are shown below.
1. UnionPay Debit & Prepaid
$3.528 trillion purchase volume, +0.4%
2. Visa Debit & Prepaid
$2.022 trillion purchase volume, +6.0%
3. Mastercard Debit & Prepaid
$0.899 trillion purchase volume, +11.2%
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Global General Purpose Cards—Midyear 2020
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Credit, debit and prepaid cards with Visa, UnionPay, Mastercard, JCB, Diners Club/Discover and American Express brands initiated 206.75 billion purchase transactions for goods and services worldwide from January 1 to June 30, 2020, an increase of 2.1% over the same period in 2019. Purchase transactions by debit and prepaid cards accounted for 59.06%, up from 55.77%.
Purchase volume for the first six months of 2020 amounted to $13.512 trillion, down 3.8% versus the same period in 2019. Credit card purchase volume was down 9.7%. Debit/prepaid purchase volume was up 3.5%. Credit cards held a 55.27% share of combined credit, debit and prepaid purchase volume, down from 55.67% in 2019.
When measuring combined credit, debit and prepaid card purchase transactions, the top market share was held by Visa with 41.78%, down from 43.67%. UnionPay gained share, moving to 29.53% from 27.43%. Mastercard’s share increased to 25.27% from 25.07%. American Express went from 2.23% to 1.92%, JCB went from 0.91% to 0.87% and Diners Club/Discover dropped to 0.63% from 0.69%.
When measuring combined credit and debit card purchase volume, UnionPay held the top spot with a market share of 48.50%, unchanged from the same period in 2019. Market share for Visa increased to 30.23% from 30.00%. For Mastercard, its market share increased to 16.19% from 15.67%. Amex’s share declined to 3.54% from 4.21%. JCB’s share slid to 0.98% from 1.01% and Diners Club/Discover slipped to 0.56% from 0.61%.
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