Issue 1272

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Newsletter

Walmart Tests Instant Payments with Fiserv

A proof of concept for instant payments settled in real time through links to the Federal Reserve’s FedNow Service and RTP from The Clearing House network has just been completed.

Featured Chart

Largest Merchant Acquirers Worldwide

The eight acquirers listed here processed 250.21 billion transactions during calendar year 2023. This represented 48.3% of transactions generated by the top 150.

Featured Companies

The following companies are featured in this issue of the Nilson Report. News about companies appears in feature articles, as well as in the First Look and Management Changes sections of the newsletter. To submit general information about your company, or to share news with us, please contact us.

Message from the Publisher

Please take a moment to visit the Archive page on the Nilson Report website. When you log in, you will find that we have improved the functionality of this page considerably. Subscribers can now quickly and easily access ten years of our archive, making previously published issues just as easy to research and read as the issue you’re reading now. We will continue to update our capabilities over the course of this year and will keep our subscribers up to date as we do.

David Robertson, Publisher
October 15, 2024

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Largest Merchant Acquirers Worldwide Based on Transactions in 2023

Market Shares of Purchase Transactions for the 150 Largest Merchant Acquirers

Largest 150 Merchant Acquirers Worldwide Ranked by Global and Domestic Card Brand Purchase Transactions in 2023

Market Shares of 4.52 Billion Payment Cards Shipped in 2023

Card Manufacturers, Payment Card Shipments in 2023

Visa and Mastercard Payment Card Shipments by Manufacturer 2023

UnionPay Payment Card Shipments by Manufacturer 2023

Other Payment Card Shipments by Manufacturer 2023

Other High Security Card Shipments by Manufacturer 2023

Total Household and Credit Card Debt 2005 – 2023

US Credit Card Debt and Consumer Credit from 1993 to 2023

Credit Card Debt as a Percentage of Consumer Credit 1983 through 2023

Spending, Transactions and Cards for Global Brands in the Middle East and Africa

FEATURED STATISTICS

Manufacturers of Payment Cards Ranked by Shipments in 2023

The largest manufacturers of payment cards are ranked on pages 8 and 9 based on shipments worldwide in 2023. The five largest global providers are shown here.

Thales
945 0 million

Idemia
704.0 million

G+D
577.5 million

CPI Card
323.9 million

Perfect Plastic
188.4 million

Full access to data on Shipments from Payment Card Manufacturers in 2023 is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report

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