Industry Events
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.
MPE 2026 will bring together 1,600+ individuals representing companies that are redefining the merchant payments ecosystem, on March 17-19, in the InterContinental Hotel Berlin, Germany.
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.
Industry News
May 4, 2026
FIME has launched Fact (Framework for Agentic Commerce Trust), a real-time trust layer between AI systems and payment rails that enables continuous verification, certification and oversight of agent-initiated transactions. Fact works across different systems so merchants can accept all AI-initiated transactions.
May 4, 2026
TRANSUNION is collaborating with Mastercard in the Philippines to offer lenders a risk profile of consumers with no previous credit history or only a minimal history. The data merges information Mastercard gathers from card transactions with TransUnion’s bureau and alternative data.
May 4, 2026
MISSION LANE, a fintech provider of credit cards to more than three million consumers in the US considered to be credit marginalized by legacy issuers, has filed applications with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to establish a special-purpose credit card bank to be headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Currently, the company’s credit cards are issued by Transportation Alliance Bank and WebBank
May 4, 2026
SOCURE, which provides an enterprise-grade, AI-native platform that organizations use for identity verification and risk decisions, offers Socure Launch for start-up companies. Prebuilt identity and fraud fighting technologies enable developers to build directly on Socure’s RiskOS platform to speed deployment of their own onboarding and payout workflows. Socure Launch charges on a pay-as-you-go basis.
May 4, 2026
PAYABL. is offering Visa Click to Pay to its merchant processing customers in Europe, which replaces manual card number entry with a token-based checkout experience. Once a card is enrolled in Click to Pay, subsequent purchases can be completed in a few clicks. According to Visa, authorization rates improve by up to 11% compared to manual entry of card details. Faster checkout also helps reduce shopping cart abandonment.
May 4, 2026
MERCURY, a San Francisco-based fintech, has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national bank charter. Approval for the new bank is pending from the FDIC and Federal Reserve. Mercury, which reports four years of GAAP profitability, provides credit cards, debit cards, bill payment, spend management and other financial services to more than 300,000 business and consumer customers. Currently, business cards from Mercury are issued by Patriot Bank. Consumer cards are issued by First Bank & Trust.
Nilson in the News
April 3, 2026
Card volume rises with digital boost
"'There’s a surprising amount of new transactions as Visa and Mastercard really work to expand the merchant acceptance side of the business,' Nilson Report publisher and owner David Robertson said in an interview last month."
March 13, 2026
Credit-card cash reshapes US airline loyalty — and profit
"David Robertson of the Nilson Report said that if redeeming miles feels out of reach, some consumers may abandon airline cards, potentially prompting pressure from banks that buy miles in bulk."
March 4, 2026
CCCA seeks new path to passage
"Visa, the largest U.S. network, and No. 2 Mastercard, dominate the industry, controlling about 77% of the market in the U.S. credit card market, according to the research firm Nilson Report."
March 4, 2026
ACI Worldwide Unveils Connetic for Cards Payments Hub
"Despite the rise of real-time payments, cards continue to dominate globally. Fuelled by contactless adoption, e-commerce growth and B2B digitisation, global card transactions totalled 776 billion in 2024 and are projected to reach 1.1 trillion annually in 2029 – a 43% increase, according to research from Nilson Report."
January 12, 2026
Heavy metal’s hot in payment cards
"The number of payment cards circulating globally has nearly doubled since 2015, to 18.1 billion last year, but yearly growth rates have slowed since 2021, according to Nilson Report data CompoSecure cited in an August investor presentation."
January 8, 2026
Apple Card switches hands but no immediate changes for users
"The shift solidifies JPMorgan’s dominance in the credit card sector. The company was the top U.S. credit card issuer in 2024 based on more than $1.344 trillion in purchase volume, according to The Nilson Report. It’s the sixth year in a row that JPMorgan has held the top spot."
Nilson in the News
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