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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.

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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Diane Kush
- Director, Sr. Product Manager, Commercial Cards
- MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
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Cynthia (Yaxue) Wang
- Senior Marketing Director
- Beijing Wiseasy Technology Co., Ltd.

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.

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
Accurate and informative.
Edward Cheng
- Sales Director
- Asia Credit Card Production Ltd. (ACC)
For our company, the Nilson Report is more than an accurate source of statistics. It’s for benchmarking our performance, and an inspiration to be more competitive.
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- Clearing and Settlement Officer
- Centre Monetique Interbancaire
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
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- Managing Director Americas
- Paysend
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Monica Zhou
- Manager, Marketing Department
- Vanstone Electronic (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
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Richard Eskell
- CEO
- Inlogik Pty Ltd.
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- Head of Corporate Strategy & Business Development
- Emburse
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.
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- Director of Payments
- Cross River Bank
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- President
- Blackhawk Network
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- Founder & CEO
- CardFlight
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- CEO
- Aurus
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- President Payment & Access
- Fingerprints
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Dana Childers
- Head of Product Management
- Edenred
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.

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- Founder and CEO
- Core-Chain Tehnologies
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- Global Business Development Manager, Composite Materials
- DIC Europe GmbH
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Dan Battista
- CEO
- Factor4
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Pieter de Villiers
- CEO
- Clickatell

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
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- VP, Product Management
- FICO
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Thiery Spanjaard
- Smart Insights Chief Editor
- Intelling

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- Executive VP, Head of Merchant Solutions
- Worldpay from FIS
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
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David Sack
- Account Executive
- SutherlandGold
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
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

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- Product & Marketing Manager
- Valid S.A.
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 the payment industry's go-to resource, always publishing insightful analysis and meaningful content,.
Fern Glowinsky
- CEO
- Merrco Payments, Inc.
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Sabine Leferink
- General Manager Worldwide Network
- Dun & Bradstreet
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
I appreciate our interactions with the Nilson Report and look forward to reading their hot-off-the-press industry news.
Jennifer Bleth
- CEO
- Cornercard
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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.
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

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
The Nilson Report has long been considered the best source of authoritative data and comment for all things payments.
David Poole
- Special Advisor
- MyPinPad

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