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Issue 1296

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Newsletter
November 2025

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Featured Article

Card Networks, Top Issuers and Merchants Settle Litigation from 2005

Over the last five years, merchants have paid $317.41 billion in interchange fees to Visa and Mastercard credit card issuers to accept $19.616 trillion in purchases for goods and services.
Featured Chart

US Credit, Debit and Prepaid Cards Projected through 2029

Consumer and commercial credit, debit and prepaid general purpose and private label cards generated $12.260 trillion in purchase volume for goods and services in 2024, up 5.7% versus 2023. Purchase volume is projected to total $15.701 trillion in 2029.

Featured Companies

Message from the Publisher

Our annual research publication, The World’s Top Card Issuers and Merchant Acquirers, is available. Now in its 17th edition, the publication compiles a year of data on payment businesses worldwide and includes many businesses that don’t have the scale to make it into the top 50 rankings we publish in this newsletter. Also of interest to our readers; many of the tables in the research publication are available in downloadable Excel format, a frequently requested feature. Our Subscription Director, Lori Fulmer, would be happy to answer any questions you have about adding the research publication to your subscription. You can reach her at lfulmer@nilsonreport.com.

David Robertson, Publisher
November 18, 2025

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

US Credit, Debit and Prepaid Cards Projected through 2029

US Credit/Debit Purchase Volume Projected in Trillions with Percentage Change—2019 vs 2029

US Outstandings Projected in Billions with Percentage Change 2019 vs 2029

US Cards Projected — 2029

US Purchase Transactions Projected — 2029

US Purchase Volume Projected — 2029

US Total Transactions Projected — 2029

US Total Volume Projected — 2029

Market Shares of Purchase Volume for Asia Pacific Card Issuers in 2024

Top General Purpose Card Issuers in Asia–Pacific — 2024

Top Credit Card Issuers in Asia–Pacific — 2024

Top Debit Card Issuers in Asia–Pacific — 2024

POS Terminals Shipped — 2024

POS Manufacturers’ Market Shares and Shipments — 2024

Manufacturers of POS Terminals — 2024 Shipments by Region

Investments & Acquisitions in the Payment Card Industry — October 2025

FEATURED STATISTICS

POS Terminal Manufacturer Shipments Worldwide

The 50 largest manufacturers of POS terminals worldwide are ranked on page 17. Collectively, they shipped 128.1 million devices in 2024. The five largest manufacturers are listed here.

Newland …. 9.33 million devices
Landi…………8.53 million devices
Pax Tech. ….8.48 million devices
Centerm…….7.86 million devices
Tianyu……….7.57 million devices

Full access to POS Terminal Manufacturer Shipments Worldwide — 2024 is available when you subscribe or log in to the Nilson Report.

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