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Issue 1222

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Newsletter
June 2022
Featured Article

Mastercard’s CipherTrace Technology

Blockchain analytics and cryptocurrency intelligence is the expertise of CipherTrace, which was acquired by Mastercard last year. CipherTrace had more than 50 customers worldwide among financial institutions, digital asset exchanges and governments when Mastercard bought the company. 
Featured Chart

Merchant Acquirers in the Middle East and Africa—Ranked by Purchase Transactions

The region’s nine largest acquirers came from four different countries and processed 4.3 billion Visa and Mastercard transactions. This represented 85.2% of the region’s total.

Featured Companies

Message from the Publisher

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David Robertson, Publisher
June 30, 2022

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Merchant Acquirers in the Middle East and Africa—Top 9 Ranked by Purchase Transactions

Top General Purchase Acquirers in Middle East and Africa—Ranked by Purchase Transactions

Top Merchant Acquirers in the Middle East and Arica—Ranked by Visa and Mastercard Transactions

Purchase Volume on US General Purpose Cards—2016 through 2021

Purchase Volume at Merchants 2021—US General Purpose Credit, Debit and Prepaid Cards

US Debit Card Issuers Ranked 51st to 100th

Publicly Traded Companies in Payments

FEATURED STATISTICS

Purchase Volume at Merchants 2021—US General Purpose Credit, Debit and Prepaid Cards

The 100 largest US issuers of credit, debit and prepaid cards based on purchase volume in 2021 are ranked on pages 8 and 9. The five largest are shown below.

1. JPMorgan Chase
$1,380.59 billion purchase volume, +26.0%
2. American Express
$867.59 billion purchase volume, +26.7%
3. Bank of America
$867.23 billion purchase volume, +17.9%
4. Wells Fargo
$589.60 billion purchase volume, +19.3%
5. Citi
$513.56 billion purchase volume, +20.6%

Full access to the Purchase Volume at Merchants 2021 results in the United States ranked by US general purpose, credit, debit and prepaid cards is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.

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