Issue 1233 | Jan 2023
Global Network Payment Card Transactions Projected Worldwide
Market Shares of Purchase Transactions in 2022 by Region
Purchase Transactions Worldwide Global Brands–Projected through 2027
Ten-Year Growth in Global Brand Purchase Transactions–from 2012–2022
Ten Largest M&A Transactions in 2022
M&A Activity in Merchant Processing and Acquiring–Second Half of 2022
US General Purpose Card Brands through 3Q 2022
Investments & Acquisitions–November 2022
US General Purpose Card Brands through 3Q 2022
Amex, Discover, Mastercard and Visa cards issued in the US generated $7.055 trillion in purchase volume in the first 9 months of 2022. Credit cards accounted for 56.8% of the total. The credit card purchase volumes are shown below.
Visa
$2,093.33 billion purchase volume
Mastercard
$967.44 billion purchase volume
American Express
$793.02 billion purchase volume
Discover
$154.98 billion purchase volume
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POSTED JAN 15, 2023 | PRINT
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