Issue 1209 | Dec 2021
Companies featured in this issue include:
Card Fraud Losses Dip to $28.58 Billion
Voice-Activated In-Car Payments
Top 150 Debit Card Issuers Worldwide
Global Brand Card Acceptance Locations Exceed 100 Million
Top Domestic-Only Payment Card Issuers—Debit
In-Store Payment Orchestration from Ingenico
Card Fraud Worldwide
Fraud by Type of Card
Card Fraud Projected through 2030
Fraud Inside U.S. vs. Outside the U.S.
Largest Debit Card Issuers Worldwide
Global Brand Acceptance Locations
Largest Domestic-Only Debit Card Issuers
Top Manufacturers of Payment Cards—Ranked by Shipments in 2020
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Total Shipments
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Visa and Mastercard
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Other Payment
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—UnionPay
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Other High Security
Investments & Acquisitions—October 2021
Global Brand Acceptance Locations
Visa, Mastercard, Discover/Diners Club, American Express, UnionPay and JCB maintain networks of merchant acceptance locations worldwide. The total number of locations exceeded 100 million as of September 30, 2021.
Visa
80 million acceptance locations
Mastercard
80 million acceptance locations
Discover/Diners
61 million acceptance locations
American Express
60 million acceptance locations
UnionPay
59 million acceptance locations
Full access to the Global Brand Acceptance Locations results is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
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Global Brand Card Acceptance Locations Exceed 100 Million
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Visa and Mastercard merchant acceptance networks are the largest among the global card brands with 80.0 million at the end of the third quarter of 2021. This includes in-store, online and micromerchants that use smartphones and tablets as POS terminals.
However, the 80 million figure does not include as...
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