Issue 1214 | Feb 2022
Companies featured in this issue include:
Top U.S. General Purpose Credit Cards
Top 50 U.S. Mastercard and Visa Credit Card Issuers
Global Brand Cards—Midyear 2021
BIM Networks and Discover to Promote A2A Payments
White-Label Buy Now, Pay Later Platform
UnionPay International and Fiserv are Global Partners
Top Issuers of General Purpose Credit Cards in the U.S.
Market Shares of Outstandings for Top U.S. Issuers in 2021
Top 20 U.S. Credit Cards Issuers—Ranked by Outstandings, Purchase Volume, Purchase Transactions and Cards 2021
U.S. Mastercard and Visa Credit Card Issuers—Purchase Transactions
Top 50 Mastercard & Visa Credit Card Issuers in the U.S.
Global Brand General Purpose Cards
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Top 50 Mastercard & Visa Credit Card Issuers in the U.S.
U.S.-based issuers of Visa and Mastercard credit cards generated 39.45 billion transactions for purchases of goods and services in 2021. The five largest issuers are ranked below based on purchase transactions in 2021.
1. Chase, Delaware
11.26 million purchase transactions
2. Capital One, Virginia
5.19 million purchase transactions
3. Citi, South Dakota
4.66 million purchase transactions
4. Bank of America, Delaware
4.53 million purchase transactions
5. U.S. Bank, Ohio
1.48 million purchase transactions
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White-Label Buy Now, Pay Later Platform
Skeps provides technology on a white-label basis that other companies can use to deliver buy now, pay later (BNPL) point-of-sale financing programs to merchants. The BNPL technology operates on a blockchain.
Within their own environment, lenders make available to Skeps a byte code version of their risk models. The private blockchain is used to execute credit evaluations within the merchant’s environment, where it can incorporate a buyer’s data. At all times, a lender’s proprietary information remains unknown to Skeps and the merchant. Skeps holds a U.S. patent on its distributed underwriting technology.
U.S.-based customers of Skeps include two banks and five fintechs. Collectively, they are handling $200 million a month in BNPL purchases. First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO) is one of those customers. It uses Skeps’s platform with retailers such as Scheels that are partners in co-branded credit card programs. The technology can be deployed quickly and helps protect co-brand card issuers from losing merchant partners to third-party BNPL specialists.
A test of the Skeps technology by one of the five largest U.S. banks began this month. Smaller lenders such as credit unions can also deploy the Skeps platform. The company seeks partnerships with banks that want to offer BNPL to their customers.
Skeps does not offer credit. It executes the risk and credit policies of its lenders and follows all regulatory guidelines. Any type of BNPL product can be supported and in any market worldwide. The company’s distributed underwriting capability can be used for instant credit approval for business-to-business BNPL transactions.
INTERVIEWED FOR THIS ARTICLE
Tushar Srivastava is Chief Executive Officer at Skeps in New York, tushar@skeps.com, www.skeps.com.
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