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Issue 1295

Award-winning business intelligence, payment card statistics, industry news, and dozens of executive contacts in every issue. Subscribers receive 22 issues a year.
Newsletter
October 2025

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Featured Article

Mastercard Commerce Media

Mastercard’s program generates a 22 times return on advertising spend (ROAS) for merchants, superior results to what they obtain from third-party CLO specialists.
Featured Chart

Top Global Credit Card Issuers—2024

Credit card outstandings owned by the 10 largest issuers in the world at year-end 2024 totaled $1.282 trillion on December 31, 2024. That group included 6 US issuers and 4 from China.

Featured Companies

Message from the Publisher

Our latest issue includes feature articles about credit cards for corporations, multisource financing for consumers at the point of sale, new distribution channels that deliver advertising deals to cardholders and more. We would also like to direct your attention to pages 3 and 4, where we present 23 brief news items in our First Look section. In addition to the news, products and services about the companies mentioned, you will also find the names and email addresses of 30 executives. Over the course of a year, subscribers receive the names and contact details of more than 400 industry executives. Would that asset be of use to any of your colleagues? If so, have them contact us.

David Robertson, Publisher
October 31, 2025

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Top Global Credit Card Issuers—2024

150 Largest Credit Card Portfolios Worldwide—Outstandings by Region

150 Largest Credit Card Portfolios Worldwide—Outstandings by Country

150 Largest Credit Card Portfolios Worldwide Ranked by Outstanding Receivables

Card Manufacturers — Payment Card Shipments 2024

Top General Purpose Card Issuers in Latin America

Top Credit Card and Debit Card Issuers in LA&C

Publicly Traded Companies in Payments

FEATURED STATISTICS

The 36 largest manufacturers of payment cards are ranked on page eight based on shipments in 2024. More than 4 billion cards were produced by this group. The four largest are shown here. Full access to Payment Card Manufacturer Shipments — 2024 is available when you subscribe or log in to the Nilson Report.

Thales…….. 869.0 million
Idemia…….. 648.5 million
G+D………… 611.0 million
CPI Card…. 338.9 million

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