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Issue 1290

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Newsletter
July 2025
Featured Article

Justt Fights First-Party Misuse Fraud

As Justt’s models steadily improve, the company’s enterprise clients, which include Best Buy, Affirm, Melio and DoorDash, benefit.
Featured Chart

Asia–Pacific Global Network Cards 2024

UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard JCB, American Express and Diners Club cards issued in the Asia–Pacific region generated 350.21 billion purchase transactions in 2024, up 13.9%.

Featured Companies

Message from the Publisher

You are reading the 1,290th issue of the Nilson Report. Our trade journal was first published nearly 55 years ago. Awareness of our publication and its value to the payment industry has always spread best through the testimonials of subscribers to their colleagues. To thank you for those referrals, we are introducing a new incentive program. Benefits include discounts on renewals, complimentary subscriptions, additional issues of the newsletter and other tokens of our appreciation. Stay tuned. We will launch the program soon.

David Robertson, Publisher
July 31, 2025

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Asia–Pacific Global Network Cards 2024

Purchase Transactions in Asia–Pacific 2020 through 2024

Asia–Pacific Cards in Circulation 2014–2024 (with 2024 Market Shares)

Asia–Pacific Spending, Transactions and Cards by Global Brand

First Quarter US Card Network Results

Top Card Issuers in the Middle East and Africa—2024

Top 50 Credit Card Issuers in MEA—2024

Top 50 Debit Card Issuers in MEA—2024

Top 50 Credit Card Issuers in Europe 2024

Top 50 Debit Card Issuers in Europe 2024

Publicly Traded Companies in Payments Ranked by Market Cap.

FEATURED STATISTICS

The 50 largest payment card issuers in the Middle East and Africa are ranked on pages 10 and 11 of this issue. The five largest based on purchase volume in 2024 generated by credit and debit cards that they issued is shown here:

IsraCard (Israel) ………. ………$62.28 billion
Cal (Israel)………………………… $50.73 billion
Emirates NBD (UAE)……………$39.64 billion
Max IT Finance (Israel)………….$38.18 billion
Al Rajhi Bank (Saudi Arabia)… $33.79 billion

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