Issue 1278

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Newsletter

Acquirers and ISOs Can Provide Rewards to Merchants

Tuzo’s rewards platform assigns points based on the purchase volume of every credit card payment merchants accept. Points can be redeemed for travel, prepaid cards, electronic devices, vacation destinations and luxury goods.

Featured Chart

Payment Cards in Circulation

General purpose and private label credit, debit and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide are projected to reach 31.13 billion by December 31, 2029.

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

Our publication is designed to act as a foundation on which companies in the payment card industry can build their market intelligence. That is why, in every issue, we provide subscribers with the names and email addresses of fellow executives they can do business with. In the 22 issues we published in 2024, we provided contact details for more than 840 executives. After this, our second January issue, we are on pace to exceed that number in 2025.

David Robertson, Publisher
February 3, 2025

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Payment Cards in Circulation — 2024 vs. 2029

Projected Cards in Circulation —2029

Discover Card 2024 vs. 2023

Publicly Traded Card Networks — Market Capitalization Change

Publicly Traded Card Issuers — Market Capitalization Change

Top 5 Investments in Merchant Processing, Acquiring— 2024

Investments in Merchant Processing, Acquiring by Region

Mastercard and Visa Worldwide thru 3Q 2024

FEATURED STATISTICS

Visa & Mastercard Worldwide thru 3Q24

Mastercard and Visa purchase volume for the first nine months of 2024 reached $15.813 trillion. Of that amount, $8.894 trillion was generated buy cards issued outside the US. Shown here is a ranking of purchase volume based on where cards were issued.

Visa outside the US
$5.044 trillion

Visa US
$4.864 trillion

Mastercard outside the US
$3.849 trillion

Mastercard US
$2.056 trillion

Full access to data on purchase and transaction volume for Visa and Mastercard in 3Q24 is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.

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