Credit and Debit Card Issuers (Global Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the global credit and debit card issuing industry. The paper gives a snapshot summary, with additional sections on the industry's development, organisation and structure, current conditions and its leading companies and countries.

Global Industry Overview: Credit and Debit Card Issuers

Industry firms grant credit and debit accounts to businesses and individuals. Certain banks in this industry are also engaged in other aspects of commercial banking (see Banking and Insurance).

Industry Snapshot

Visa, MasterCard and American Express are the world's largest players in the financial card market, offering credit and debit cards to consumers around the world. Visa's market share of credit and debit card transactions worldwide was 68 percent as of 2008. MasterCard had the next largest share at 28 percent. The U.S. is the world's largest credit card market....

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