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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

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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.

Over the years, I have come to depend on the Nilson Report as a great source of information for timely news, insights, and information on dynamics within the payment industry. It offers insights on the latest trends, and covers the full spectrum of payment methods with statistics on volume, spending, and growth.
Randa Bdeir
- Deputy General Manager | Head of E-Payment Solutions & Cards Technology
- Credit Libanais S.A.L.
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 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.
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- Plant Manager
- Thomas Greg & Sons de Mexico
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- Account Executive
- SutherlandGold

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William Maurer
- Professor, Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion
- University of California, Irvine
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 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
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Paymentology
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Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili
- Managing Director
- HPS - Hightech Payment Solutions
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

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- Executive VP, Head of Merchant Solutions
- Worldpay from FIS
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.
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- Head of Payments Practice
- Infosys Limited
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.
The Nilson Report is where industry veterans go for the most important news concerning payments trends.
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- Head of Corporate Strategy & Business Development
- Emburse
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

Each new issue of the Nilson Report is eagerly awaited since it always contains genuinely useful data. Whether it's stats on payments and processing or industry news, it's authoritative, timely and comprehensive.

Peter Alcock
- Head of Product Marketing
- NMI
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
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- Global Head of Marketing
- Amadis
You have helped me every time I asked for 20 years.
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- Managing Partner
- Proton Partners
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Dana Childers
- Head of Product Management
- Edenred
For more than 50 years, the Nilson Report has been a trusted, essential, valued, independent and comprehensive resource. It is our leading provider of relevant news, insights, statistics and trends in the payments industry.
Horst Foerster
- Managing Partner
- Xbusiness Consultance
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Thomas J. Horan
- VP, Product Management
- FICO
Succinct, corroborated updates about the payments world.
Candice Lim on behalf of Aung Kyaw Moe
- CEO
- 2C2P
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.
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- CEO
- Justt
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- CEO
- Mobi724 Solutions
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

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

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
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
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Diane Kush
- Director, Sr. Product Manager, Commercial Cards
- MUFG Union Bank, N.A.

At Visa Consulting & Analytics, we share a passion for results. We deliver value closely aligned to our client’s success. The Nilson Report delivers global insights, benchmarks and more that enrich our consultants delivery of best practices, thought leadership and innovation.

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- Managing Consultant for Iberia and Italy
- Visa
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 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 51 years!!!!
Day Jimenez
- CEO
- Xtrategies, LLC
The Nilson Report is a strategic asset for Minsait Payments, helping us to elevate our competitive intelligence and enabling us to navigate the uncertainty and complexity of the payments industry.
Jose Alberto Alves Martinez on behalf of Miguel Angel Prieto Morales
- Director Soluciones Medios de Pago
- Minsait Payments Systems SL

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
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 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.
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
We greatly value the accuracy and reach of The Nilson Report. As a payment-solutions provider, we rely heavily on the information and industry news it provides. Moreover, there is no greater or more respected industry acknowledgement of a company's achievements in the card and mobile payment space.
AJ Cross
- Head of Administration
- Merchant Lynx Services
The Nilson Report is my first and most trusted resource for commercial card growth, industry trends and movements.
Richard Eskell
- CEO
- Inlogik Pty Ltd.
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.
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- Senior Officer, Credit & Debit Cards
- Piraeus Bank
The Nilson Report is the undisputed authority when it comes to data in our industry. We put it at the centre of fact-led decision making, and consider it essential to our business. This publication is my go-to for all the latest news in the fintech sector.
Verity Billington
- Marketing & Brand Communications
- Chargebacks911
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
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
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.
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- Senior Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mapp Advisors
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.
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- Engineer
- Promocion Y Operacion (Prosa)
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.
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- Head of Strategic Marketing & Partnerships
- TAS Spa
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.
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- Head of Global Pricing Performance & Optimization
- Ingenico ePayments
For the latest trends and the hottest topics in our rapidly changing industry, I turn to the Nilson Report for the latest trends.
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- CEO and Founder
- Everyware
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Cynthia (Yaxue) Wang
- Senior Marketing Director
- Beijing Wiseasy Technology Co., Ltd.

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