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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 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
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 Nilson Report is the payment industry's go-to resource, always publishing insightful analysis and meaningful content,.
Fern Glowinsky
- CEO
- Merrco Payments, Inc.

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 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
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 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)
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.

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 my go-to source for information and data within the payments industry.
Dana Childers
- Head of Product Management
- Edenred
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
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
You have helped me every time I asked for 20 years.
Stephen Stout
- Managing Partner
- Proton Partners
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 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.
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 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
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 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
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

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
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

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 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 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
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
The Nilson Report is the best source for keeping us up-to-date with the changing market dynamics in payments and acquiring. The wealth of insight we have picked up has helped us continue to evolve our strategy for continued growth.
Manoj Verma
- CRO
- Tabapay
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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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
Reading the Nilson Report makes us more knowledgeable about the payment ecosystem worldwide.
Freeman Wang
- Sales Director, International Sales Center
- Topwise Communication Co., Ltd.
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
A credible and insightful industry news source, providing expertise analysis from its writer.
Sabine Leferink
- General Manager Worldwide Network
- Dun & Bradstreet
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.

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
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
The Nilson Report allows us to analyse data relevancy and gather insights on a global scale, instead of the traditional focus on local trends.
Henry Nanne
- COO
- Inteligencia Comercial Tilo dba Tilopay

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 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
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'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

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
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
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 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

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