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Issue 1201

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Message from the Publisher

The steady growth of business-to-business payments is driving corporate
investments and acquisitions in that sector. For your convenience, we’ve
assembled the B2B payment investments that took place in the first half
of the year and ranked them on page 13.

David Robertson, Publisher
July 15, 2021

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Asia-Pacific Global Network Cards 2020—Purchase Transactions

Asia-Pacific Spending, Transaction and Cards by Global Brand

Asia-Pacific Market Shares of Purchase Transactions—2008-2020

U.S. Debit Card Issuers—Ranked 51-100

U.S. Merchant Processing Fees—2020

Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Financing Transactions—January-June 2021

FEATURED STATISTICS

U.S. Merchant Processing Fees—2020

Merchants in the United States paid $110.32 billion in processing fees in 2020 to accept $7.630 trillion in credit and debit card purchase volume. Fees paid declined 5.2% from 2019.

Visa/Mastercard Credit
$61.63 billion fees, $2,776.21 billion purchase volume
Visa/Mastercard Debit
$22.60 billion fees, $3,138.74 billion purchase volume
American Express
$15.77 billion fees, $691.52 billion purchase volume
PIN Debit
$4.21 billion fees, $637.33 billion purchase volume
Discover
$3.11 billion fees, $142.80 billion purchase volume

Full access to the United States Merchant Processing Fees–2020 is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.

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