Issue 1210 | Dec 2021
Companies featured in this issue include:
U.S. Consumer Payment Systems
Personal Consumption Expenditures in the U.S. 2020—Market Shares of Purchase Volume
Consumer Payment Systems in the U.S.—2020 with Projections for 2025
Largest Domestic-Only Credit Card Issuers
Largest Credit Card Issuers Worldwide 2020—Ranked by Purchase Volume
Card Manufacturers 2020—Part 2
Investments & Acquisitions—November 2021
U.S. General Purpose Cards—through 3Q 2021 vs. through 3Q 2020
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Top 150 Credit Card Issuers Worldwide by Purchase Volume
The 150 largest credit card issuers worldwide are ranked based on purchase volume generated in 2020. Below are the top five.
1. American Express, Worldwide
$869.70 billion purchase volume
2. JPMorgan Chase, Worldwide
$743.69 billion purchase volume
3. China Merchants, China
$583.97 billion purchase volume
4. Citi, Worldwide
$488.92 billion purchase volume
5. ICBC, Worldwide
$444.51 billion purchase volume
Full access to the Top 150 Credit Card Issuers Worldwide 2020 results ranked by purchase volume is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
POSTED DEC 21, 2021 | PRINT
U.S. Consumer Payment Systems
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Personal consumption expenditures (PCE), a statistic calculated by the United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) was $14.048 trillion in the U.S. in 2020. Purchases made for goods and services amounted to $10.714 trillion, which was 76.3% of PCE.
The BEA includes...
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