Industry Events
In Africa, Payments and Regtech stand as catalysts for economic transformation. Innovations in digital transactions coupled with robust regulatory technology are reshaping the financial landscape.
Trustech is the annual meeting place of the card and trust technology industries. The event remains a popular mix between tradeshow and conference with over 200 international exhibitors, and around 100 international speakers covering the latest technologies and trends in the fields of Payments & Identification.
Transact by Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the world’s largest payments industry trade group is the one show focused solely on the business of payments technology. Transact is the place where financial institutions, networks, payments companies, FinTech and technology innovators gather to make the deals that shape the industry.
MPE 2025 will bring together 1,500+ individuals representing companies that are redefining the merchant payments ecosystem, on March 18-20, in the InterContinental Hotel Berlin, Germany.
A dynamic 4-day event that promises cutting-edge educational content, including keynotes, workshops, breakout sessions, and exclusive merchant roundtables, offering a comprehensive exploration of the latest payments and fraud prevention developments in Europe.
The 20th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum returns to Zurich, Switzerland to explore how organisations are optimising operations and seizing opportunities through the latest technological innovations in Payments and RegTech.
Industry News
November 21, 2025
U.S. BANK, the fifth largest US issuer of Visa and Mastercard credit cards, has expanded a co-brand deposit account and credit card partnership with Edward Jones to include clients of the company’s 20,000 financial advisors. Clients will be able to manage their everyday spending and investments in one platform. The partners promote three Mastercard branded credit card products with different value propositions.
November 21, 2025
WORLDPAY, the second largest merchant acquirer worldwide based on transactions processed, has integrated with the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) of OpenAI. Users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot will be able to shop directly from participating Worldpay merchants using Instant Checkout.
November 21, 2025
Alacriti, which provides payment and money movement technologies to banks and credit unions in North America, has integrated Visa Direct into its Orbipay Payments Hub for card-based real-time payments. Orbipay already supports RTP Network, FedNow Service and Zelle.
November 21, 2025
DLOCAL and ALCHEMY PAY have formed a partnership to facilitate crypto payments in Latin America, beginning in Argentina. Alchemy Pay is a payment gateway that connects crypto with fiat currencies. It supports fiat payments in 173 countries. DLocal connects companies to local fiat payment methods in emerging markets through one API, one platform and one contract. It will provide Alchemy Pay with access to instant bank transfers in Argentina.
November 21, 2025
TRUIST, which ranks eighth largest among Visa and Mastercard small business credit card issuers in the US, is the first superregional bank to launch a Visa Business Premium Infinite product. The Truist Business Premium Visa Infinite card is aimed at small businesses with above-average annual spending. It delivers 2% cash back with an additional 10% loyalty cash bonus. Lines of credit range to $100,000.
November 21, 2025
BARCLAYS and VISA have agreed to extend a multi-decade partnership. The agreement, which covers card issuing and merchant acquiring in the UK and card issuing in the US, also includes account-to-account payments, agentic commerce and value-added services.
Nilson in the News
November 13, 2025
The golden age of US credit card rewards may be at an end
"Retailers, unsurprisingly, hate swipe fees, which last year doubled to $148bn from 2016 levels, according to The Nilson Report. For many, they rank second only to wages as a cost of doing business."
November 12, 2025
8 pros, cons of Visa-Mastercard pact
"Swipe fees on Visa and Mastercard credit cards totaled a record $111.2 billion last year, 11% higher than in 2023 and triple the cost a decade earlier, the Merchant Payments Coalition said in March, citing data from the Nilson Report."
November 8, 2025
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
"In 2023, banks and other financial institutions that issue Visa and Mastercard credit cards collected $72 billion of these interchange fees, according to the Nilson Report, a trade publication."
October 1, 2025
How stablecoins could change the way Americans shop in stores
"Merchant processing fees reached a record $187.2 billion in 2024, according to Nilson Report."
September 9, 2025
The Debit-Card Rebellion
"Around the turn of this century, credit accounted for more than two-thirds of card purchases and debit for about one-third, according to data from the Nilson Report, an industry-research publication."
August 26, 2025
JPMorgan, Already No. 1 in Card Spending, Wants Even More
"Not only was Chase the top credit-card issuer in the U.S. by purchase volume in 2024, according to industry tracker the Nilson Report, it is still growing quickly."
Nilson in the News
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Industry News
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