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Issue 1220

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Newsletter
May 2022
Featured Article

Nethone Fraud Fighting

When the principals at Nethone began building their machine learning-based online fraud fighting platform in 2016, they recognized that future success in mitigating card-not-present losses would depend less on the approach of legacy providers—models built on massive amounts of historical data.
Featured Chart

Top Issuers of Commercial Cards in the United States

The eight largest issuers accounted for $769.61 billion in commercial card purchase volume on credit, debit and prepaid cards in 2021, up 14.3% versus 2020.

Featured Companies

Message from the Publisher

This issue includes the results of our annual survey of the largest U.S. issuers of credit, debit and prepaid commercial card products. Figures are obtained by our direct contact with the issuers. This information is not available from any other publication, nor is it published when issuers release annual figures about their card programs. There are nearly 100 issuers represented in our commercial card survey this year.

David Robertson, Publisher
May 31, 2022

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Top Eight Issuers of Commercial Cards in the United States

Purchase Volume on U.S. Commercial Cards by Type—Market Shares and Change in Purchase Volume

U.S. Mastercard & Visa Commercial Card Issuers—Ranked by Purchase Volume in 2021

Corporate Cards in the U.S.

Purchase Volume on Corporate, Purchasing and Fleet Cards in the U.S.

Small Business Credit Cards in the U.S.

Small Business Debit Cards in the U.S.

Purchasing & Fleet Cards in the U.S.

Commercial Prepaid Cards in the U.S.

Publicly Traded Companies in Payments

FEATURED STATISTICS

Purchase Volume on U.S. Commercial Cards by Type—Market Shares and Change in Purchase Volume

Credit, debit and prepaid commercial cards available from the 95 largest issuers in the U.S. generated $1.081 trillion in purchase volume in 2021. The market share by product type is shown here.

Purchasing/Fleet/Corporate
$374.4 billion, 35% market share
Small Business Credit
$340.9 billion, 32% market share
Small Business Debit
$220.2 billion, 20% market share
Prepaid
$145.3 billion, 13% market share

Full access to the Purchase Volume on U.S. Commercial Cards by Type—Market Shares and Change in Purchase Volume is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.

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