Issue 1189 | Jan 2021
Payment Card Transactions Projected Worldwide
Tap on Phone at Visa and Mastercard
M&A Activity in Merchant Processing and Acquiring—2020
Paysafe Aims to Go Public with SPAC Merger
Silverflow Acquiring Platform for Merchants and PSPs
Mastercard and Visa Worldwide through 3rd Quarter 2020
Purchase Transactions Projected Worldwide
Market Shares of Purchase Transactions Projected for 2025 by Region
Purchase Transactions Global Brand Cards 2000-2020
M&A Activity in Merchant Processing and Acquiring by Region—2020
Mastercard & Visa Worldwide thru 3Q 2020
Mastercard & Visa Worldwide thru 3Q 2020
There were over 218 billion credit, debit and prepaid card purchase transactions for Mastercard and Visa worldwide in the first three quarters of 2020. Transactions included all consumer and commercial card products.
1. Visa Worldwide
136.03 bil. purchase transactions, -0.2%
2. Mastercard Worldwide
82.04 bil. purchase transactions, +4.1%
3. Worldwide totals
218.07 bil. purchase transactions, +1.4
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POSTED JAN 19, 2021 | PRINT
Huntington, TCF Merger Impacts Debit Cards

Regional U.S. banks Huntington Bancshares and TCF Financial have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction. Huntington will acquire TCF for almost $6.00 billion. The combined bank will have about $170 billion in assets and over 1,200 branch locations in 12 states.
When their debit card businesses are combined, the new bank will rank 14th largest in the U.S. Huntington and TCF combined generated $39.05 billion in purchase volume in 2019 from 1.06 billion transactions and 5.1 million cards. Huntington, which issues Mastercard brand debit cards, uses Fiserv to handle cardholder account processing. TCF is a majority Visa debit card issuer. Fiserv also handles processing for TCF debit cards.
Neither Huntington nor TCF own merchant acquiring businesses. Both have merchant referral agreements with Fiserv.
TCF does not own a credit card portfolio. It is an agent for First Bankcard, a subsidiary of First National of Omaha. Huntington issues consumer and commercial credit card products. Its portfolio is the 35th largest among Mastercard and Visa card issuers in the U.S. There were 768,432 Huntington credit cards in circulation at midyear 2020. All had the Mastercard brand.
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