Issue 1201 | Jul 2021
Asia-Pacific Global Network Cards
Securing Networks with Microsegmentation
Caixa Pagamentos Acquiring with Fiserv in Brazil
Second 50 U.S. Mastercard and Visa Debit Card Issuers
Tokenized Wearables for the Fashion/Design Industries
Merchant Processing Fees in the United States—2020
Push-to-Business Real-Time Payments
B2B Funding Deals in 2021
Asia-Pacific Global Network Cards 2020—Purchase Transactions
Asia-Pacific Spending, Transaction and Cards by Global Brand
Asia-Pacific Market Shares of Purchase Transactions—2008-2020
U.S. Debit Card Issuers—Ranked 51-100
U.S. Merchant Processing Fees—2020
Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Financing Transactions—January-June 2021
U.S. Merchant Processing Fees—2020
Merchants in the United States paid $110.32 billion in processing fees in 2020 to accept $7.630 trillion in credit and debit card purchase volume. Fees paid declined 5.2% from 2019.
Visa/Mastercard Credit
$61.63 billion fees, $2,776.21 billion purchase volume
Visa/Mastercard Debit
$22.60 billion fees, $3,138.74 billion purchase volume
American Express
$15.77 billion fees, $691.52 billion purchase volume
PIN Debit
$4.21 billion fees, $637.33 billion purchase volume
Discover
$3.11 billion fees, $142.80 billion purchase volume
Full access to the United States Merchant Processing Fees–2020 is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
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Merchant Processing Fees in the United States—2020
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General purpose and private label credit, debit and prepaid cards issued in the United States generated a combined $7.630 trillion in purchase volume in 2020, an increase of 0.6% over 2019. Merchants in the U.S. paid $110.32 billion in processing fees, a decrease of 5.2%, to accept those cards as payment for goods and...
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