Top U.S. Issuers of Visa & Mastercard Credit Cards
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FOR 49 YEARS, THE LEADING PUBLICATION COVERING PAYMENT SYSTEMS WORLDWIDE SEPTEMBER 2019 / ISSUE 1161 Top 150 Merchant Acquirers Worldwide Turn to page 9 for a ranking of the 150 largest merchant Top U.S. Issuers of acquirers of general purpose credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions handled during calendar year 2018. Those acquirers Visa & Mastercard Credit Cards > see p. 8 Based on Spending at Midyear Bl. U.S. General Purpose Card Brands—Midyear 2019 389 Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover brand credit, debit, and prepaid cards generated 54.23 billion purchase 356 transactions from January 1 through June 30, 2019—an increase > see p. 7 Idemia and Zwipe Are Biometric Card Partners 207 The second largest payment card manufacturer in the world, 193 182 174 Idemia, has formed a partnership with Zwipe, a provider of ultra- 176 160 low-power technology used to add biometric authentication > see p. 8 74 70 67 Amazon PayCode/Amazon Cash in the U.S. 64 The U.S. has become the 20th country in which customers of amazon.com can pay cash over the counter at a Western Union (WU) location for purchases made online using Amazon PayCode. ‘18‘19 ‘18‘19 ‘18‘19 ‘18‘19 ‘18‘19 ‘18‘19 > see p. 12 Bank of Capital US Wells Chase Citi Europe Mobile Payment Association Amer. One Bank Fargo The European Mobile Payment Systems Association (Empsa) Note: Midyear spending covers January 1 through June 30. has been formed by companies in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, © 2019 The Nilson Report Finland, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland. > see p. 12 U.S. Visa and Mastercard Credit Card Issuers—January 1 through June 30, 2019 Verrency Cloud-Based Middleware Card issuers, account processors, and others use cloud-based The 100 largest U.S. issuers of Visa and Mastercard credit cards middleware from Verrency to launch new products and services are ranked by outstandings and total volume on pages 10 and using APIs while maintaining their existing issuing software 11. The 10 largest issuers based on outstandings collectively > see p. 6 were up 4.6% when comparing June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2018. The second 10 were up 8.8%, and the third 10 were up 2.9%. Walmart/Capital One Credit Cards The 10 largest issuers based on purchase volume collectively The first credit cards from the new partnership of Walmart and were up 7.4% when comparing the six months from January Capital One are available. The Capital One Walmart Rewards 1-June 30, 2019 to the same period the prior year. The second Mastercard offers 5% back on purchases from walmart.com, 10 were up 6.9%, and the third 10 were up 8.8%. > see p. 6 > see p. 10 INSIDE 2 – 3 Fast Facts CHARTS 7 U.S. General Purpose Cards 9 Largest 150 Merchant Acquirers 4 Investments & Acquisitions—August 2019 Midyear ‘19 vs. Midyear ‘18 Worldwide 2018 5 SoftPOS in EMEA and APAC 8 Market Share of Top 10 Global 10 U.S. V/MC Credit Card Issuers 5 Ocean Plastic Payment Cards Acquirers vs. Remaining 140 Midyear Outstandings and Volume © 2019 HSN Consultants, Inc. THE NILSON REPORT VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.NILSONREPORT.COM SYNAPSE, which provides payment, deposit, lending, CORRECTION: In issue #1160 we published a POS terminal and investment products as APIs to fintech companies, figure for MagTek. The figure was an estimate and should has joined Cardtronics-owned Allpoint Network to give its have been marked as such. We regret the oversight. customers access to those 55,000 surcharge-free ATMs. ELAVON, a global payments provider and subsidiary of Sankaet Pathak is CEO at Synapse, [email protected], U.S. Bank, will integrate Brighterion’s artificial intelligence www.synapsefi.com. Brian Bailey is EVP and Managing platform into its network to minimize fraud and manage risk. Director, North America at Cardtronics, bbailey@ Brighterion, a Mastercard company, can analyze nearly 100 cardtronics.com, www.cardtronics.com. billion transactions annually. 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