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Issue 1282

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Newsletter
March 2025
Featured Article

Digital Asset Infrastructure for PSPs and Acquirers

Utila’s digital asset adoption technology is enterprise-grade and was designed for the high-speed operations needed by payment service providers, payment gateways, issuers of stablecoin products, neobanks and others.
Featured Chart

Top US Merchant Acquirers in 2024 with Change vs. 2023

The seven largest owners of merchant acquirer contracts in the United States handled 143.08 billion purchase transactions, an increase of 1.4% versus 2023.

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David Robertson, Publisher
March 31, 2025

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Top US Merchant Acquirers in 2024 with Change vs. 2023

The 7 Largest US Acquirers in 2024—Ranked by Total Purchase Volume

Top 25 US Acquirers Totals—Ranked by Purchase Volume and Purchase Transactions

Card-Not-Present (CNP) Acquiring

Top 59 Merchant Acquirers in the US in 2024—Ranked by Mastercard and Visa Purchase Volume

Publicly Traded Companies in Payments

FEATURED STATISTICS

Card-Not-Present (CNP) Acquiring

The largest merchant acquirers in the US are ranked on pages 8 and 9 based a combination of purchase volume generated by card present and card-not-present transactions processed in 2024. The four largest based on purchase volume tied only to card-not-present transactions processed are listed here.

JPMorgan Payments,
 $1,456.83 billion

Worldpay,
 $699.63 billion

Wells Fargo,
 $296.70 billion

Elavon,
$199.36 billion

Full access to our the Largest Merchant Acquirers in the US—2024 results is available when you subscribe to the Nilson Report.

 

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