Issue 1168 | Jan 2020
Companies featured in this issue include:
American Express Results U.S./Worldwide—2019
Facial Payments/Digital Signage Platform
Discover Financial Services Results—2019
Paystand B2B Blockchain for JCB
Profits at Top U.S. Credit Card Issuers
IdentityMind AML/KYC/Fraud Protection
Prepaid Card Spinoff in Europe
U.S. Credit Card Outstandings vs. Purchase Volume
MyPINpad Achieves PCI SSC SPoC Approval
U.S. General Purpose Cards, Outstandings as a Percentage of Purchase Volume
American Express Card Results 2019
Discover Card U.S. Results 2019
Income at Top U.S. Credit Card Issuers: Company Net vs. Card Net
Investments in Merchant Acquiring & Processing—2019
American Express Card Results 2019
Results for American Express for calendar year 2019 are shown on the table on page 6. Figures include business generated by cards issued inside and outside the United States.
1. Cards
Global Total 114.4 (million), +0.4%
2. Accounts
Global Total 93.0 (million), +0.4%
3. Transactions
Global Total 8.90 (billion), +6.4%
4. Volume
Global Total $1,240.80 (billion), +6.3%
5. Outstandings
Global Total $172.57 (billion), +3.4%
Full access to the American Express Card Results 2019 is available when you subscribe to The Nilson Report.
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U.S. Credit Card Outstandings vs. Purchase Volume
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Outstanding credit card receivables tied to consumer and commercial products issued in the U.S. for use on the Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover networks grew 4.6% to $1.018 trillion at the end of 2019. The last year the U.S. industry saw double-digit growth in credit card outstandings was 2000. In 3 of the...
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