Companies featured in this issue include:

General Purpose Cards—U.S. 2021

Mastercard and Visa in the U.S.—2021

Amex Offers Design Options to Platinum Cardholders

Payment Industry Investments—2021, Illustrated

Santander’s Buy Now, Pay Later Platform

Imprint Cards and Loyalty

Samsung’s All-in-One Chip for Biometric Cards

Experian’s Specialty Credit Bureau for BNPL

U.S. General Purpose Brands—Purchase Volume

U.S. General Purpose Cards—2021 with change vs. 2020

Market Shares of Purchase Volume on General Purpose Cards in the U.S.—2021

U.S. Credit Card Outstandings

General Purpose Credit Cards in the U.S.—2021 with change vs. 2020

Purchase Volume on Mastercard and Visa Credit and Debit Cards in the U.S.

Mastercard and Visa Cards in Circulation in the U.S.—2011 through 2021

Mastercard and Visa Credit, Debit & Prepaid Cards in the U.S.

Mastercard and Visa Debit and Prepaid Cards in the U.S.

Payment Industry Investments—2021

Investments & Acquisitions—January 2022

Featured in our current issue are U.S. credit card receivables for the four global brand card networks—Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover—at year-end 2021. Their combined total was $932.85 billion.

Visa, $445.22 billion, 47.73% market share
+6.5% vs. 2020
Mastercard, $291.81 billion, 31.28% market share
+6.2% vs. 2020
American Express, $121.44 billion, 13.02% market share
+19.1% vs. 2020
Discover, $74.37 billion, 7.97% market share
+4.1% vs. 2020

Credit, debit and prepaid Mastercard and Visa consumer and commercial cards issued in the U.S. combined generated $7.387 trillion in purchase volume in 2021, an increase of 24.9% from 2020. 

Purchase volume at Visa increased 25.0% to $5.211 trillion. Mastercard purchase volume increased 24.6% to $2.176...

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