Issue 1216 | Mar 2022
Companies featured in this issue include:
Canada Card Networks and Issuers—Purchase Transactions
Canada Market Shares of Visa and Mastercard Outstandings at Year-End 2021
Canada Spending, Transactions and Card by Brand
Largest Credit Card Issuers in Canada—Ranked by Outstandings
Merchant Processing Fees in the U.S as a Percent of Card Sales
Fees Paid by Merchants in the U.S. with Purchase Volume
U.S. Consumer ACH Transactions—2021
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Consumer ACH Payments in the U.S.
Last year, consumers initiated 14.89 billion direct ACH transactions valued at $9.093 trillion. The largest four categories, ranked by number of transactions, are listed below.
1. Internet, 8,715.5 million transactions
Value: $4,578.30 billion
2. Recurring Bills, 4,431.6 million transactions
Value: $3,919.30 billion
3. Lockbox, 690.8 million transactions
Value: $251.40 billion
4. Telephone, 673.6 million transactions
Value: $306.50 billion
Full access to the Consumer ACH Payments in the U.S. table is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
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Merchant Processing Fees in the United States—2021
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Credit, debit and prepaid cards issued in the United States, general purpose and private label type combined, generated $9.443 trillion in purchase volume in 2021, up 23.2% from 2020. U.S. merchants who accepted those cards as payment for goods and services paid $137.83 billion in processing fees, an increase of 24.3% from the...
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