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Issue 1179

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Businesses worldwide are four months into the wrenching adjustment of
coexisting with Covid-19. Now that working from home has become the new
normal for many of us, we are contacting subscribers to see who may want to
start getting the print edition of the Nilson Report again. If you do, let us know your current address. In the meantime, feel free to print this issue and share a copy with your colleagues.

David Robertson, Publisher
July 20, 2020

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Asia-Pacific General Purpose Cards Market Shares in 2019

Asia-Pacific Spending, Transactions, and Cards by Global Brand

Asia-Pacific Market Shares of Purchase Transactions 2007-2019

Second 50 Largest Debit Card Issuers in the U.S.

Europe’s Top 10 Mastercard and Visa Issuers 2019 vs. 2009

Top General Purpose Card Issuers in Europe

Top 50 Credit Card Issuers in Europe

Top 50 Debit Card Issuers in Europe

U.S. Visa and Mastercard Commercial Card Products

Investments & Acquisitions–June 2020

FEATURED STATISTICS

Top General Purpose Card Issuers in Europe

The 50 largest issuers of general purpose credit and debit cards–Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Diners, Maestro, UnionPay, and domestic-only–are ranked on page 8 based on spending for good and services in 2019.

1. Lloyds/MBNA, United Kingdom
$280.83 billion purchase volume
2. Sberbank, Russia
$200.68 billion purchase volume
3. Credit Agricole, France
$183.42 billion purchase volume
4. NatWest, U.K./Ireland
$180.00 billion purchase volume
5. Barclays, United Kingdom
$177.68 billion purchase volume

Full access to the Top General Purpose Card Issuers results in Europe is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.

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