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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.

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
A credible and insightful industry news source, providing expertise analysis from its writer.
Sabine Leferink
- General Manager Worldwide Network
- Dun & Bradstreet
You have helped me every time I asked for 20 years.
Stephen Stout
- Managing Partner
- Proton Partners
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
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
My interview with the Nilson Report was thorough, focused, and in-depth. The quality of their reporting is reflected in their coverage.
David Sack
- Account Executive
- SutherlandGold
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
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
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
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
For the latest trends and the hottest topics in our rapidly changing industry, I turn to the Nilson Report for the latest trends.
Larry Talley
- CEO and Founder
- Everyware
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.
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
Accurate and informative.
Edward Cheng
- Sales Director
- Asia Credit Card Production Ltd. (ACC)
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 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.
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
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 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.

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

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.

Alfredo Marchese
- Managing Consultant for Iberia and Italy
- Visa

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
Succinct, corroborated updates about the payments world.
Candice Lim on behalf of Aung Kyaw Moe
- CEO
- 2C2P
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)
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 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

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
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
The Nilson Report consistently publishes information and insights that can't be found elsewhere, with objective and authentic reporting. A unique and valuable resource for our industry.
Derek Webster
- Founder & CEO
- CardFlight
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
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
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
I get a lot of my insights from Nilson Reports. This is where new trends are identified, as where I can get on top of relevant information
Ruben Nielsen
- Vice President of Sales & Business Development
- Finaro
The Nilson Report is our go-to source for reliable information and insight.
Rowan Brewer
- Chief Executive Officer
- Paymentology
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

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
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
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.
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
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 one of the sane places we go to get crisp and clear information. It's a precise, comprehensive and concise bulletin that we refer to for payment industry updates.
Rahul Mutha
- CEO
- Aurus
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
Based on the data that it collects, the Nilson Report provides a unique and valuable perspective of the payments ecosystem at a reginal and global level.
Mark Bunney
- Director Go To Market Strategy
- Ingenico Group North America

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
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

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Melody Cuff, on behalf of President
- EVP, Chief Acquisitions Officer
- Oliphant Financial
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
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

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

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