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About Payment Yearbooks

Defensible numbers on the world's payments market.

We've published annual country and regional reports on the global card-acceptance landscape since 2012. Used by analysts, strategists, regulators, and product teams who need source-verified data, not press-release noise.

14
Years of data
100+
Country reports
8
Regional bundles

What's inside every report

Every country yearbook is built on the same six-section spine, year over year, so you can compare apples-to-apples across markets and across editions.

01 · Banks
Leading institutions
Top banks by assets, deposits, branches, and active retail/digital accounts. Year-on-year comparisons.
02 · Cards
Issuers & acquirers
Leading card issuers and merchant acquirers, transaction volumes, market share, and competitive dynamics.
03 · Schemes
Payment networks
Domestic and international scheme performance — Visa, Mastercard, plus local schemes like Bancontact, BankAxept, MIR.
04 · Ecosystem
A2A & open banking
Account-to-account flows, instant payments, open-banking adoption, mobile wallets, and the regulatory direction.
05 · Infrastructure
Acceptance & rails
POS terminal counts, ATM coverage, transaction volumes, and market infrastructure shifts.
06 · Outlook
Direction of travel
Editorial commentary on where the market is heading: M&A activity, regulation, technology shifts, talent flows.

Who reads us

Strategy & corporate development teams at banks, schemes, and acquirers use Payment Yearbooks to size new markets, benchmark competitors, and build defensible business cases.

Product and growth teams at fintechs and PSPs rely on us when a market-entry decision needs more than a Statista screenshot.

Regulators and central-bank analysts cite us for cross-border comparisons of payment infrastructure and consumer behaviour.

Investors — both private capital and listed-equity research — use the numbers to triangulate management's claims about TAM, market share, and competitive position.

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