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What Subscribers are Saying

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.

Shadi Haddad
, Founder and CEO
, Till Payments

The Nilson Report has proven to be a valuable tool for helping Till Payments assess product/market fit as we look to expand our footprint. We count on the validity of news and analysis when we are making our investment decisions.

Jan-Pieter Lips
, 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.

As a reader of the Nilson Report, I find it provides a global outlook and inspiration. It is our only source of information on competitors worlwide, especially when it comes to the European and Russian acquiring and card market.
Dmitry Rumyanskiy
- Executive Director, FP&A Manager
- Sberbank
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 a great source for industry news and for insights on how innovation will affect the market.
Dan Battista
- CEO
- Factor4
As the leader of a fintech that competes in multiple sectors, I need to keep abreast of both emerging technologies and key shifts in market dynamics. Reading the Nilson Report is critical to my ability to keep abreast of what’s happening across the payments industry.
Jana Schmidt
- President, Global Payments Solutions
- Quisitive Technology Solutions
The Nilson Report is a go-to resource for the payments industry. It's the best way to stay connected to players and developments!
Talbott Roche
- President
- Blackhawk Network
Our company has subscribed to the Nilson Report for many years. We find their market statistics to be very useful and accurate. They are also very useful when it comes to providing information about newcomers and new technologies.
Juana Aida Aranda
- Global Business Development Manager, Composite Materials
- DIC Europe GmbH

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
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 payment industry is going through a digital transformation and innovating in many ways. In these times, it is critical to have great data and insights. That is why we at Microsoft are so thankful to have the Nilson Report and cannot wait for the next edition.

Donald Kossman
- General Manager, Fraud Protection
- MICROSOFT
I’ve subscribed to the Nilson Report for decades. It’s an invaluable source of payments-ndustry statistics, trends, and developments including new services, M&As, investments, and management changes. Anybody involved in payments would benefit from reading it.
Eric Grover
- Partner
- Intrepid Ventures
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 is a premier subscription publication in the payments industry that we use to keep track of useful industry statistics and developments. It is truly a one-of-a-kind source of information.
Ofir Tahor
- CEO
- Justt
The Nilson Report remains one of the time-tested reports in the payments industry, able to presents the latest developments in entirety without any fluff.
PJ Gupta
- Founder and CEO
- Checkbook
The Nilson Report is a genuine and reputable source of news, insight, and analysis on the global payments industry. I’ve been a reader for many years.
Daniel Kornitzer
- Chief Business Development Officer
- Paysafe Services (Canada)
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
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 is always my reference when it comes to payment cards. They are track all the information that’s relevant for the industry, and their data and rankings constitute an extremely valuable resource for analyzing every player in the secure-transactions industry.
Thiery Spanjaard
- Smart Insights Chief Editor
- Intelling

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
Zip subscribed to the Nilson Report at a time when our company was expanding globally. We came to rely on its coverage of our sector and on its excellent payments intelligence.
Matthew Abbott
- Director, Corporate Affairs
- Zip Money
Thanks to these professional reports from Nilson,SUNMI can get first-hand information about worldwide Payment industry. SUNMI is an IoT company based in Shanghai with 15 global branches, who offers many brilliant IoT products related to financial payment. Expecting to have opportunity to cooperate with these excellent companies through Nison’s new website.
Axelrod Guo, Prod. Marketing Director, on behalf of Yvonne (Xi) Yu
- Product Manager Intern, Product Marketing Dept.
- Shanghai Sunmi Technology Co., Ltd.
We work with a lot of payment and fintech companies, and the one publication we always strive to get coverage in is The Nilson Report. It’s influential, highly regarded and the one media outlet whose content moves the needle.
Paul Wilke
- CEO
- Upright Position Communications
The Nilson Report is our go-to source for reliable information and insight.
Rowan Brewer
- Chief Executive Officer
- Paymentology
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
I find the Nilson Report to be highly valuable because they distill the the most important developments in partnerships, innovations, M&As, statistics and trends worldwide. Their analysis cuts the clutter and efficiently delivers high-quality condensed info across the entire value chain of payments, allowing me to stay abreast with the latest information in the payments space.
Vivek Dwivedi
- Head of Payments Practice
- Infosys Limited
Providing complete and comprehensive coverage of important developments in the global payments industry, the Nilson Report is especially valuable to the International Card Manufacturers Association as a reliable resource for data related to card manufacturing worldwide and insights into the rapid evolution of the complex card industry.
Jeffrey Barnhart
- Founder, Executive Director
- ICMA
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
For more than 25 I have turned to the Nilson Report as a reliable source of information on the credit card market. This publication provides reliable and otherwise impossible-to-find data, presented in a user-friendly format.
Mark Broderick
- Principal Analyst
- Panoramic Research
The Nilson Report is an invaluable resource to the payments industry, providing relevant and up-to-date information on issuers, acquirers, banks and other participants in the financial ecosystem. Their policy of not accepting any advertising, paid sponsorships, or promoted white papers keeps their content purely fact-based without editorial bias. We’re particularly proud of our participation in their annual rankings.
Michael Nardy
- CEO
- Electronic Payments, Inc.
I have been reading the Nilson Report for 30 years and depend on it for high-quality timely information. I wouldn’t be without it!
Harold Montgomery
- Managing Director
- Wirex USA

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 provides our organization with up-to-date and reliable information that we can use to better understand our members and industry
Riaz Ladha
- Payments Strategy
- Electronic Transactions Association ETA
The Nison Report is an essential resouce in the payment industry – providing relevant data and independant insight without sponsorship of any kind.
Martina King
- CEO
- Featurespace
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
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 a subscriber of the Nilson report for over 10 years and find it to be a high-quality publication providing insights on banking environments, processors and new technologies worldwide. All this delivered in a concise way with stunning visuals. The annual listing of the top 50 of banks in various regions is by far its most anticipated and most discussed feature.
Markos Goulielmos
- Senior Officer, Credit & Debit Cards
- Piraeus Bank
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.
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 Nilson Report is my go-to source for information and data within the payments industry.
Dana Childers
- Head of Product Management
- Edenred
The Nilson report is an invaluable source of well-researched and documented information covering the online payments sector. This is my 25th year in the payments industry, and the Nilson Report has been there all along.
Mr. Jens Bader
- CEO
- Funanga DBA CashtoCode
The Nilson Report is arguably the most respected source of news and analysis of the global card and mobile payment industry. Its credibility is upheld by the fact that it does not accept paid advertising or sponsorships of any kind.
Andre Lovestam
- CEO
- Zwipe

As a researcher in the payments space, I have come to depend upon the Nilson Report's independent and comprehensive reporting and data. It's really one of a kind.

William Maurer
- Professor, Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion
- University of California, Irvine
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
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.

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
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 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
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)
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
You have helped me every time I asked for 20 years.
Stephen Stout
- Managing Partner
- Proton Partners
As a professional researcher, I have been using the Nilson Report for many years as a go-to place for payments data and trends.
Sharon Lidington
- Lead, Research & Data Services
- Bain & Company, Inc.

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