Issue 1214 | Feb 2022
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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POSTED FEB 28, 2022 | PRINT
UnionPay International and Fiserv are Global Partners

The UnionPay International (UPI) subsidiary of China UnionPay plans to grow its business outside of China through a cardholder and merchant processing partnership with Fiserv. The companies signed a contract in October 2021.
The partnership will be ready to serve new financial institution and...
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