Issue 1219 | May 2022
Companies featured in this issue include:
Top 45 Merchant Acquirers in Europe
Inetco Real-Time Fraud Fighting
U.S. Card Network Results First Quarter 2022
Largest U.S. Credit Card Issuers—First Quarter 2022
Cellulant Payment Processing in Africa
OLB Adds Crypto to Software and Processing
Pismo Global Payment and Banking Platform
Third 50 Largest U.S. Credit Card Issuers
Europe’s Top Merchant Acquirers–Global vs. Domestic
Europe’s Top Acquirers of Domestic Debit and Credit Cards in 2021
Top Merchant Acquirers in Europe–Ranked by Visa/Mastercard Transactions
Europe’s Top Acquirers of Web Transactions
First Quarter Card Network Results
Largest U.S. Credit Card Issuers–1Q 2022
Visa & Mastercard Outstandings, Shares by Groups of 50
Third 50 Largest Visa/Mastercard Credit Card Issuers
Investment & Acquisitions–April 2022
Largest U.S. Credit Card Issuers–1Q 2022
The 15 largest U.S. issuers of general purpose and private label credit cards in the U.S. at the end of the first quarter of 2022 are ranked. The ranking is based on purchase volume. The five largest are listed here.
1. JPMorgan Chase
$252.80 billion
2. American Express
$233.57 billion
3. Citi
$128.20 billion
4. Capital One
$126.28 billion
5. Bank of America
$109.10 billion
Full access to the Largest U.S. Credit Card Issuers–1Q 2022 results is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
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Inetco Real-Time Fraud Fighting
Before commerce was transacted on the internet, Inetco was a software company providing real-time packet switching to telecom industry clients worldwide. Since 2019, Inetco has used its real-time processing and analytics skills to detect and block payment card fraud. Last year, the company added cybersecurity defenses for financial institutions and other companies.
The company’s BullzAi product protects against card-not-present, card-present, man-in-the-middle and bot attacks and other fraud, including when perpetrated by a company insider. Inetco’s Insight product detects and fixes problems with payment network performance. It delivers a consolidated real-time view into network, switch, third-party vendors and terminals that affect payment transactions.
Inetco captures raw network data and decodes it in real time, not from log files or via APIs, while maintaining PCI compliance. The company uses machine learning to build unique models for every cardholder, card, device and entity, and then creates a risk score for customers. Everything is handled in Inetco’s high-speed storage and processing system. Risk scores are plugged into a card issuer’s processing system.
Merchants that operate their own switches are prospects for Inetco technology, which can help create a virtual firewall to block fraud while using their existing systems. Suspect card payment transactions are blocked prior to any attempted authorization. All information used to create the block are provided to merchants.
Inetco’s man-in-the-middle and other cybersecurity defenses can block high-velocity bot-driven attacks, including brute force efforts at particular ATMs or POS terminals. Individual terminals can be shut down without impacting any other device.
All transactions are reviewed to see if they originate from a human or a bot. Customers do not have to shut down their payment gateway while these defenses are occurring.
Customers such as Moneris, Canada’s largest merchant acquirer, use Inetco technology to monitor payment transactions while continuing to rely on their legacy fraud fighting systems. The technology can also be used as an extra layer of protection to spot sophisticated attacks.
Inetco revenue comes from annual fees for three-year contracts. It supports on-premises, private cloud and public cloud deployments. The company has customers in the U.S., Canada, Greece, Bulgaria, Pakistan, Turkey, Mexico, Bahrain, several African countries and the U.K.
INTERVIEWED FOR THIS ARTICLE
Christene Best is VP, Marketing and Channel Development at Inetco in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, chris@inetco.com, www.inetco.com.
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