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What Subscribers are Saying

Cindy Trautz
, Executive Director, Treasury Product Group Manager
, Texas Capital

Our leadership looks forward to our progress each year, and we know the Nilson Report is the standard.

Jan-Olof Brunila
, Director of Interbank Payments Strategy
, Swedbank AB

The Nilson Report provides us with valuable industry trends through keynote articles and news on recent tech discoveries. It also provides us with global developments through statistical deep-dives, all without swamping us with advertising.

Dylan Prins
, Communications Manager
, Worldline

The Nilson Report is the pulse of the payments industry. A must read.

Jacques Soussana
, General Secretary
, Nexo Standards

The Nilson Report is one of the most reliable sources of payments industry research available. Its data-driven approach offers an engaging overview of how financial institutions are operating, as well as the latest innovations and key trends across the entire payments ecosystem. Nexo standards relies on this knowledge to facilitate innovation and collaboration.

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, Founder and CEO
, Till Payments

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, Head of Unified Commerce
, ADYEN

Nilson Report has a unique and independent set-up. I’ve seen this firsthand when they interviewed me. They take their time to get the facts straight and they wrote an article that was completely objective, an article the reader can trust.

The Nilson Report has been a great help to us. Over the years it has provided tons of valuable data and analysis which helped a lot on decision making. As a POS manufacturer, we always need the latest trends involving acquirers, PSPs and merchants. The Nilson Report covers almost all of our needs in this regard. Their reviews are always impartial and reliable because they never accept payment for writing a positive article. I have to say it totally worth the money.
Monica Zhou
- Manager, Marketing Department
- Vanstone Electronic (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
We value the Nilson Report for its commitment to accuracy, integrity, and impartiality. Nilson is a key resource for research and supplement data analysis, helping us examine critical events within the ever-changing payments landscape.
Lauren Dutton
- Manager Growth Strategy
- Deep Labs

The Nilson Report is an indispensable guide to the movers and shakers in the cards and payments industry. Providing a comprehensive overview of payment trends and useful data both in the US and globally, Nilson enables Fiserv to keep our finger firmly on the pulse of the challenges and opportunities facing issuers, acquirers, financial institutions, fintechs, analysts, academia and others.

Carolo Specogna
- VP of Product Strategy for Card Services
- FISERV
Thanks to Nilson, we are able to gain good intuition on the global credit card industry
Minjung Kim
- Senior Research
- The Credit Finance Research Institute
The Nilson Report reveals the big picture of the upstream and downstream in global paymens. It helps us understand our customers, and acts as an industry barometer.
Sun Tong
- CEO
- Nexgo Global Ltd.
The information provided by this publication gives us a competitive advantage in the financial market. It also facilitates healthy competition, and provides an understanding of consumer behavior and trends.
Jhibran Padilla
- Engineer
- Promocion Y Operacion (Prosa)

Throughout my 25+ years in the ever-evolving merchant payments industry, the Nilson Report has been a constant companion — an essential source of information, and a means for connecting to the “who’s who” in the space. If there is one “must read’ to stay informed about payments, it is the Nilson Report!

Thomas DeLuca
- Global POS Lending Tribe Lead
- ING
We work with issuers and payment firms worldwide, and the Nilson Report provides us with timely news, market intelligence and data we otherwise would have to try to obtain from multiple sources. Please keep it coming!
Duncan MacNichol
- President, Americas
- Profit Insight
The Nilson Report is a trusted source of news and industry statistics that provides valuable and relevant insights into the payments industry, helping organizations make informed and actionable decisions.
Thomas J. Horan
- VP, Product Management
- FICO
The Nilson Report is a must have for keeping up with the card industry. It provides a single source for learning industry developments including new products, mergers, and competitive industry positioning.
Diane Kush
- Director, Sr. Product Manager, Commercial Cards
- MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
The most comprehensive and unbiased reporting on the payment Industry. The Nilson Report is essential for anyone in payments who needs to keep tabs on the pulse of this ecosystem.
Devarajan Puthupparambil on behalf of President Krishna Viswanadham
- VP, Products & Operations
- NewNet Secure Payment Transactions
I was asked to contribute to an article that the Nilson Report was doing on M&A valuations in the fintech space. The writer I spoke to was prepared, professional and insightful. It was an honor to be asked to participate, and we had a rewarding discussion.
Lance McCord
- Senior Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mapp Advisors
As Avant expandis credit access to underbanked and underserved communities, we find recognition from the Nilson Report to be an important validation of our company’s growth and success.
Allie Hoerster, on behalf of Matthew Bochenek
- CEO
- Avant, LLC
I've been following the Nilson Report for over two decades, and from the beginning it has provided accurate, intelligent reporting on the payment-industry topics that actually matter. The consistency and format make it the go-to news source on payments, especially for the C-suite.
Pete Bahrenburg
- Publicist
- Tailwind Public Relations
The financial services sector continuously changes, and the Nilson Report is a reliable source for keeping me current. Our exchanges over the years about chat commerce have been informative and insightful.
Pieter de Villiers
- CEO
- Clickatell
The #1 for the finrech and payments industry. We value the relevant insights and up-to-date news
Sarah Sophie Koch
- Director of Marketing & Communications
- AEVI International GmbH
The Nilson Report is a reliable source for news and statistics on the payments industry, providing great insight into the status quo and future trends. Their invaluable information has powered our decisions.
Cynthia (Yaxue) Wang
- Senior Marketing Director
- Beijing Wiseasy Technology Co., Ltd.
The Nilson Report is a great resource for stay ingup-to-date on the latest developments in the global payments space. This publication cuts through the fluff and presents only the critical, need-to-know updates and data.
Danny Martucci
- President & General Manager, Corpay One
- Fleetcor
The Nilson Report is not only the standard for measuring growth and market share for card manufacturers, issuers and payment schemes, it also provides insights and articles that are extremely valuable for people in this industry.
Arturo Salgado Rojas
- Plant Manager
- Thomas Greg & Sons de Mexico
The Nilson Report provides effective analytics of key market activities that help us navigate the timing and execution of marketing investments, not just in North America but globally.
Vivian Shen
- Global Head of Marketing
- Amadis
Reading the Nilson Report makes us more knowledgeable about the payment ecosystem worldwide.
Freeman Wang
- Sales Director, International Sales Center
- Topwise Communication Co., Ltd.
With well-organized data and diagrams, the Nilson Report is efficiently helpful when it comes to uderstanding the global payment industry and the latest trends. It is also a trusted reference for planning new projects. The payment industry changes, but the value of insights from this publication remains unchanged.
Yihan Lu
- Specialist
- National Credit Card Center, R.O.C.
The Nilson Report is the trusted bible of for all professionals in the payment industry. By not taking any paid advertising, it is able to offer unbiased reporting on relevant topics that is not available from any other publication. The value of subscribing is undoubted, in my opinion. If you are in the payment industry, you need to take out a subscription.
Ben Jordan
- Chairman
- Card Network Solutions Europe AB
The Nilson Report is an extremely valuable resource that provides us with relevant data and insights in the payment industry.
Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili
- Managing Director
- HPS - Hightech Payment Solutions
The Nilson report has proven over the years to be the most reliable source of industry insights and analysis.
Alex Osei-Danso
- Group Manager, Cards
- Ecobank, The Pan African Bank

More important than ever, companies need intelligent data management to to make smarter decisions. Market research from the Nilson Report accurately presents us with key trends and differentiating factors for each market segment.

Andre Sousa
- Product & Marketing Manager
- Valid S.A.
The Nilson Report is where industry veterans go for the most important news concerning payments trends.
Omar Qari
- Head of Corporate Strategy & Business Development
- Emburse
The Nilson Report is my first and most trusted resource for commercial card growth, industry trends and movements.
Richard Eskell
- CEO
- Inlogik Pty Ltd.
Not only is the Nilson Report a great source of information for smart decision making, it’s also does an excellent of integrating all the card-market players.
Ike Vander Horst
- Litho Formas / TGS Card Solutions
- Thomas Greg & Sons
The Nilson Report is a great source for industry news and for insights on how innovation will affect the market.
Dan Battista
- CEO
- Factor4
The Nilson Report is timely, current, comprehensive yet packaged in a very readable and useful way. It is one of the best sources of news and data.
James D. Robinson III
- General Partner
- RRE Ventures, LLC

I've been following the Nilson Report for over two decades - and from the beginning it has provided accurate, intelligent reporting on the payment industry topics that actually matter. The consistency and format make it THE go-to payments news source, especially for the C-suite.

Chris Aguas
- Founder and CEO
- Core-Chain Tehnologies
We value the Nilson Report’s best-in-class analysis of the global card industry. Timely and practical data is made even more useful by the irrefutable neutrality of its researchers.
Marina Jacobone
- Head of Strategic Marketing & Partnerships
- TAS Spa

I have been reading the Nilson Report for several decades now, and consider it indispensable for anyone in the payments industry. I also admire its utterly unique approach to journalism: clear, concise, accurate information and insights that are free of advertising and tendentious sourcing. We could use more of this!

Hans Morris
- Managing Partner
- NYCA Partners
The Nilson Report has long been considered the best source of authoritative data and comment for all things payments.
David Poole
- Special Advisor
- MyPinPad
The Nilson Report is my go-to source for information and data within the payments industry.
Dana Childers
- Head of Product Management
- Edenred

The Nison Report is the premiere source of information on and analysis of the payments Industry, providing data not found anywhere else. It has pioneered coverage of this market segment, and upheld a standard of presenting unbiased information for over 50 years!!!!

Day Jimenez
- CEO
- Xtrategies, LLC
We find the Nilson Report to be super helpful in providing us with data on merchant acquiring and processing.
Ben Varga (from list 1001, query submission)
- Associate, US Payments & FinTech
- Autonomous Research, div of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
I frequently use the Nilson Report’s reliable market insights in my daily work. This is particularly valid for superb rankings of players by market segments and geography.
Domagoj Mandaric
- COO, Management Board
- Vestigo - Card & Account Payments Solutions

The Nilson Report is a trusted and reliable source of global payments data for our business.

Nathan Salisbury
- Managing Director Payment IQ, Head of Indirect Sales
- Worldline
For years I’ve relied on the Nilson Report to keep me up to speed on the payments industry. Their data-driven approach provides a level of insight that is not always common in the industry, removing any subjectivity around payments trends.
Keith Vander Leest
- Director of Payments
- Cross River Bank
The Nilson report gives us great insights on our industry, and helps us to make accurate analysis and market assessments
Mathias Gustafsson/Michel Roig
- President Payment & Access
- Fingerprints
For our company, the Nilson Report is more than an accurate source of statistics. It’s for benchmarking our performance, and an inspiration to be more competitive.
Ramzi Mohammed
- Clearing and Settlement Officer
- Centre Monetique Interbancaire
Accurate and informative.
Edward Cheng
- Sales Director
- Asia Credit Card Production Ltd. (ACC)
The Nilson Report is a great way to stay informed on the latest players and trends driving the payments industry.
Jairo Riveros
- Managing Director Americas
- Paysend
To me, the Nilson Report is the go-to place to understand world statistics, business news and rankings in the payments industry. I also appreciate that it is ads-free.
Ariel Setton
- Head of Global Pricing Performance & Optimization
- Ingenico ePayments

I have been using the Nilson Report since I was first involved in cards in 1975. For 47 years, through credit card issuing, debit card launches, prepaid cards, merchant acquiring, and now crypto, Nilson has been my “go to” publication for industry facts for issuing, acquiring, and all elements in between. More important, Nilson just provides the facts – no spin, no politics, just the facts.

Peter Davidson
- Chief Marketing Officer & Vice Chairman
- JetPay Corporation/NCR
Over the years the Nilson Report has been a very valuable resource.The insights and reliable data accessible it provides have been critical in guiding our journey.
Anette Trulsson Corda
- SVP, Marketing and Communications
- IDEX Biometrics ASA

As a European trade association, we value coverage of both the global and US markets. Their detailed financial statistics are based on decades of valuable market knowledge.

Nicolas Adolph
- Chairman
- European Assoc. of Paymnet Service Providers for Merchants / EPSM E.V.

The Nilson Report is the gold standard on merchant acquiring. My teams and I frequently reference to get a clear view on where we stand, and which of our competitors is gaining or losing share in the market. The resource is invaluable!

Jim Johnson
- Executive VP, Head of Merchant Solutions
- Worldpay from FIS

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