Issue 1217 | Apr 2022
Companies featured in this issue include:
Latin America’s Global General Purpose Cards Reach 1 Billion
Latin America Spending, Transactions and Cards by Brand
Market Shares of Purchase Transactions in Latin America 2001-2021
Second 50 Largest Visa/Mastercard Credit Card Issuers
BNPL Deals Since January 2021—Mergers & Acquisitions
BNPL Deals Since January 2021—Corporate Financing
Investments & Acquisitions—March 2022
BNPL Deals Since January 2021
Between January 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022 there were 67 mergers, acquisitions and corporate financing transactions involving buy now, pay later companies. All 67 deals are identified on pages 10 and 11. The five largest are listed here.
1. Afterpay, $29.00 billion
acquired by Block (formerly Square)
2. Paidy, $2.70 billion
acquired by PayPal
3. Klarna, $1.64 billion
in funding
4. Atome, $900.0 million
in funding
5. Scalapay, $545.0 million
in funding
Full access to the BNPL Deals Since January 2021 is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
POSTED APR 18, 2022 | PRINT
Second 50 U.S. Mastercard and Visa Credit Cards
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The second 50 largest issuers (those ranked 51-100) of consumer and commercial credit cards carrying the Mastercard and Visa brands held $11.73 billion in outstanding receivables at year-end 2021. This was up 7.8% from year-end 2020.
Among the second 50 largest were 32 credit unions. For those issuers...
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