Issue 1211 | Jan 2022
Purchase Transactions Projected Worldwide
Five-Year Changes in Market Shares for Purchase Transactions—2021 vs. 2026
Market Shares of Purchase Transactions by Region in 2026
Twenty-Year Growth in Purchase Transactions—2001 through 2021
Visa & Mastercard Worldwide thru 3Q21
M&A Activity in Merchant Processing and Acquiring 2021 by Region
Investments & Acquisitions—December 2021
Visa and Mastercard Worldwide for First Nine Months of 2021
On page 8 we feature a comparison of Visa and Mastercard between purchase volume generated inside and outside the United States.
Visa, Outside the U.S.
$4.112 trillion
Visa, Inside the U.S.
$3.813 trillion
Mastercard, Outside the U.S.
$2.721 trillion
Mastercard, Inside the U.S.
$1.583 trillion
Full access to the Visa and Mastercard results worldwide for the first nine months of 2021 is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
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