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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.

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.

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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 my go-to source for information and data within the payments industry.
Dana Childers
- Head of Product Management
- Edenred
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
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 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 go-to resource for the payments industry. It's the best way to stay connected to players and developments!
Talbott Roche
- President
- Blackhawk Network
Accurate and informative.
Edward Cheng
- Sales Director
- Asia Credit Card Production Ltd. (ACC)
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 #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
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.
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- SVP, Marketing and Communications
- IDEX Biometrics ASA
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
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.
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- Senior Marketing Director
- Beijing Wiseasy Technology Co., Ltd.
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- Group Manager, Cards
- Ecobank, The Pan African Bank
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
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.
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- Founder & CEO
- CardFlight
The Nilson Report is an excellent resource for payments-ndustry news, information and statistics. I’ve been a subscriber for years and find the information invaluable.
Lisa Kenney
- Chief Operating Officer, SVP
- Merrick Bank
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 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
We value the coverage of payment trends and insights, even crypto and the Metaverset.
Jackel Sheng, (sub is John Sun)
- Chief Strategy Officer
- UIC Payworld, Inc.
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 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 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
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
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 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.
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- Marketing & Brand Communications
- Chargebacks911
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Marcel Vienneau
- CEO
- Mobi724 Solutions
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- Global Head of Marketing
- Amadis

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
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 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
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Rowan Brewer
- Chief Executive Officer
- Paymentology

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 a great source for industry news and for insights on how innovation will affect the market.
Dan Battista
- CEO
- Factor4
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 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
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
I appreciate our interactions with the Nilson Report and look forward to reading their hot-off-the-press industry news.
Jennifer Bleth
- CEO
- Cornercard

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- Executive VP, Head of Merchant Solutions
- Worldpay from FIS
My interview with the Nilson Report was thorough, focused, and in-depth. The quality of their reporting is reflected in their coverage.
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- Account Executive
- SutherlandGold
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- Managing Director
- HPS - Hightech Payment Solutions
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- Manager, Marketing Department
- Vanstone Electronic (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
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Allie Hoerster, on behalf of Matthew Bochenek
- CEO
- Avant, LLC

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