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Issue 1209

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Newsletter
December 2021
Featured Chart

Card Fraud Worldwide

Issuers, merchants and acquirers of merchant and ATM transactions collectively lost $28.58 billion to card fraud in 2020, equal to 6.8¢ per $100 in purchase volume.

Featured Companies

Message from the Publisher

This year the Nilson Report has covered more than 150 executive level
management changes in the card payment industry. There are thirteen shown
in this issue. Each has an email address. We hope this resource helps readers
stay up to date with each other in a rapidly evolving industry.

David Robertson, Publisher
December 7, 2021

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Card Fraud Worldwide

Fraud by Type of Card

Card Fraud Projected through 2030

Fraud Inside U.S. vs. Outside the U.S.

Largest Debit Card Issuers Worldwide

Global Brand Acceptance Locations

Largest Domestic-Only Debit Card Issuers

Top Manufacturers of Payment Cards—Ranked by Shipments in 2020

Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Total Shipments

Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Visa and Mastercard

Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Other Payment

Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—UnionPay

Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Other High Security

Investments & Acquisitions—October 2021

FEATURED STATISTICS

Global Brand Acceptance Locations
Visa, Mastercard, Discover/Diners Club, American Express, UnionPay and JCB maintain networks of merchant acceptance locations worldwide. The total number of locations exceeded 100 million as of September 30, 2021.

Visa
80 million acceptance locations
Mastercard
80 million acceptance locations
Discover/Diners
61 million acceptance locations
American Express
60 million acceptance locations
UnionPay
59 million acceptance locations

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