Issue 1234 | Jan 2023
Payment Cards Projected Worldwide through 2027
Investments in Merchant Acquiring, Processing—2022
Discover Financial Services Results—2022
Toshiba Adds PopPay Facial Biometrics to POS Devices
Mastercard and Visa Worldwide for First Nine Months of 2022
Amex Acquires Nipendo for B2B Accounts Receivable Payments
Investments & Acquisitions in 2022
Payment Cards in Circulation—Projected through 2027 in Billions
Payment Cards in Circulation—Market Shares in 2022
Top Investment Transactions in Merchant Acquiring and Processing in 2022
Investments in Merchant Acquiring and Processing in 2022 by Region
Discover Card 2022 vs. 2021
Mastercard & Visa Worldwide through 3Q 2022
Investments & Acquisitions—December 2022
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Mastercard & Visa Worldwide through 3Q 2022
Credit, debit and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide with Mastercard and Visa brands generated $13.486 trillion in purchase volume in the first nine months of 2022. Cards issued outside the US accounted for 55% of that total.
Visa (outside the US)
$4.338 trillion purchase volume
Visa (US)
$4.306 trillion purchase volume
Mastercard (outside US)
$3.040 trillion purchase volume
Mastercard (US)
$1.802 trillion purchase volume
Full access to the Mastercard & Visa results Worldwide through 3Q 2022 and change vs. through 3Q 2021 is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.
POSTED JAN 31, 2023 | PRINT
Investments in Merchant Acquiring, Processing—2022
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The tables shown here list 123 investments (seed, venture, strategic, private equity and debt funding) in 37 countries in the merchant acquiring and processing sector of the payment card industry in 2022.
Those transactions were previously identified monthly over the last year in prior issues of the...
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