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Issue 1292

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Newsletter
September 2025
Featured Article

First-Party Fraud Dispute Automation for Card Issuers

Casap offers issuers technology they can deploy to automate their back offices to fight first-party fraud, which could involve a measure of deceit on the part of a cardholder.
Featured Chart

Europe Global Network Cards—2024

The general purpose brand cards issued in Europe generated 153.30 billion transactions in 2024 for purchases of goods and services, up 13.5% from 2023.

Featured Companies

Message from the Publisher

All the articles in the Nilson Report are written by people, not software. They are based on live interviews with executives. Our data collection is also an entirely human effort. We email thousands of executives at financial institutions and payment businesses around the world and publish the results of that correspondence. This direct connection provides the quality business intelligence you have learned to trust. As of this month, we have provided that service for 55 years of continuous publication, and it remains unavailable from AI or any other source.

David Robertson, Publisher
September 17, 2025

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Europe Global Network Cards — 2024

Europe’s Global Brand Network Cards Spending, Transactions and Cards in Circulation — 2024

Purchase Transactions on Europe’s Global Brand General Purpose Cards — 2024

US Visa Direct/Mastercard Send Debit Card Transfers — 2024

Top Acquirers of General Purpose Cards in LA&C — 2024

50 Largest Merchant Acquirers in Latin America Ranked by Visa and Mastercard Transactions in 2024

Investments & Acquisitions — August 2025

FEATURED STATISTICS

The 50 largest merchant acquirers in the Latin America and Caribbean region based on Mastercard and Visa transactions acquired in 2024 are ranked on pages 11 and 12. The four largest, based combined global and domestic-only payment card transactions acquired are ranked here. Full access to Latin America’s 50 Largest Merchant Acquirers is available when you subscribe or log in to the Nilson Report.

Cielo (Brazil) …….….. 7.70 billion
Getnet (Brazil) ……… 7.63 billion
Rede (Brazil) …….….. 6.97 billion
PagSeguro (Brazil) … 5.72 billion

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