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Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that operates the world's second-largest card payment network after China UnionPay. Its origins lie in BankAmericard, launched by Bank of America in Fresno on 18 September 1958; the network was rebranded Visa in 1976 and the company listed in 2008. Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set consumer rates and fees; instead it provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products and processes transactions over VisaNet, which runs from four data centers. In 2025 its network handled about 257.5 billion transactions worth US$14.2 trillion. For fiscal 2024 it reported revenue of US$35.9 billion and net income of US$19.7 billion with about 31,600 employees, earned from service, data processing and international transaction fees. Ryan McInerney is chief executive. Visa Canada joined the consortium that bought Aeroplan in 2019.

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) is a US payments technology company headquartered at 2000 Purchase Street in Purchase, New York. It operates a global card payment network that switches transactions between issuing banks, acquirers, merchants, consumers, businesses and governments in more than 220 countries and territories, and rather than issuing cards itself it provides transaction processing and related payment services. It also sells value-added services and solutions, including security and authentication, consumer engagement and business insights, and its acquisitions include Vocalink in 2016 for $920 million, Brighterion in 2017 and Recorded Future in 2024 for $2.65 billion. In 2025 gross dollar volume on its network reached $10.6 trillion, up 9% in local currency, and net revenue was $32.8 billion, up 16%, with operating income of $18.9 billion, net income of $15.0 billion and about 39,800 employees. It earns fees on payment volume, switched transactions and cross-border activity, net of rebates and incentives paid to customers, plus fees for value-added services. The company traces its origins to the Interbank Card Association, formed in 1966 by Karl Hinke of Marine Midland Bank and other banks, and went public on the NYSE on May 25, 2006; Michael Miebach is chief executive.

American Express is a New York City-based global payments and financial services company headquartered at 200 Vesey Street. It issues charge and credit cards to consumers and businesses, runs its own card network and merchant business, and provides travel and financial services through units such as Travel Related Services. It earns discount revenue from merchants, card fees and interest on card loans. In 2025 it reported revenue of USD 72.2 billion and net income of USD 10.8 billion with about 76,800 employees, and it had 141.2 million cards in force at the end of 2023. The company traces its origins to 18 March 1850, when express businesses owned by Henry Wells, William Fargo and John Warren Butterfield merged in Buffalo, New York. It sold half of its corporate travel arm, American Express Global Business Travel, to a Certares-led group in 2014 and retains a stake of about 33.5%. Its Travel Related Services subsidiary invested in Portable Software, later Concur Technologies, in 1998.

PayPal was spun off from eBay in 2015 and provides electronic payment solutions to merchants and consumers, with a focus on online transactions. The company had 434 million active accounts at the end of 2024. The company also owns Venmo, a person-to-person payment platform.

Fiserv is a financial technology company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that provides account processing, digital banking, card issuing and merchant acquiring services to banks, credit unions and businesses. Founded in 1984, it built its core banking business through acquisitions such as Information Technology Inc. of Lincoln, Nebraska in 1995, which brought the Premier account-processing platform. Fiserv processes debit and credit card transactions, loyalty programmes, loans, electronic bill payments, ACH and wire transfers, check deposits and ATM transactions on behalf of financial institutions, with a long-standing base among small and midsize US banks. Its 2019 acquisition of First Data for $22 billion added a large merchant-acquiring business, including the Clover point-of-sale platform for small businesses and the Carat payments platform for large enterprises. The company earns recurring processing and transaction fees, software and service fees and hardware sales. In 2025 it reported revenue of $19.8 billion, operating income of $4.38 billion and about 38,000 employees, and roughly 85% of 2024 revenue came from the US and Canada. Takis Georgakopoulos became chief executive in 2025 after Frank Bisignano left to run the US Social Security Administration, and in November 2025 the shares moved from the NYSE to Nasdaq under the ticker FISV.

Circle Internet Group Inc is a financial technology firm engaged in digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications. The company's platform is a full-stack, internet financial platform business, organized around three pillars: Arc Blockchain and Developer Infrastructure, Circle Digital Assets and Services, and Circle Applications.

Kaspi.kz JSC is the payment, marketplace, and Fintech ecosystem in Kazakhstan. The firm provides interconnected technologically seamless products and services that help people to pay, shop and manage their finances. Its operating segment includes the Payments Platform that connects its customers, which consist of both consumers and merchants, to facilitate cashless, digital transactions, the Marketplace Platform, which derives maximum revenue, connects merchants and consumers enabling merchants to increase their sales and consumers to buy a broad selection of products and services offered by a variety of merchants, and Fintech Platform that enables customers to manage their personal finances online and access consumer finance and deposit products through the Kaspi.kz Super App.

Nexi is a payment services provider offering merchant acquiring, card issuing, and digital banking services across Europe. Nexi’s services cover the entire payment chain excluding the card scheme. It offers its acquiring and issuing services either in partnerships with banks, providing point-of-sale terminals, processing, or issuing services on their behalf or directly to merchants.

ACI Worldwide Inc develops, markets and installs a portfolio of software products focused on facilitating electronic payments. The firm also leverages its distribution network in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, or EMEA; and Asia-Pacific regions to sell software developed by third parties. ACI software products process payment transactions for retail banking clients, billers such as utilities and healthcare providers, and community banks and credit unions. ACI's customers are financial institutions all over the world, but majority of the revenue is generated in the United States and EMEA regions.

Paymentus Holdings Inc provides electronic bill presentment and payment services, enterprise customer communication and self-service revenue management to billers through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), secure, omni-channel technology platform. The platform integrates with a biller's financial and operational systems to provide secure and flexible processing of payments, including credit cards, debit cards, eChecks, and digital wallets, across multiple channels such as online, mobile, IVR, call centers, chatbots, and voice-based assistants. The company generates the majority of its revenue from payment transaction fees processed through its platform. Geographically, it derives the maximum revenue from the United States.

GPGI Inc is a diversified holding platform comprising businesses operating in multiple industries. The platform focuses on acquiring, owning, and scaling operating companies. It currently includes CompoSecure and Husky Technologies. CompoSecure provides technology and manufacturing solutions related to metal payment cards, security, and authentication. Its products and services are used by financial institutions, fintech companies, and other customers. Husky designs and manufactures industrial equipment and provides aftermarket services. Its equipment is used in the production of plastic products, including beverage and food containers, medical devices, and consumer electronics components.

DLocal Ltd is focused on making the complex simple, redefining the online payment experience in emerging markets. Through its technology platform, One dLocal, the company enables world-wide enterprise merchants to get paid (pay-in) and to make payments (pay-out) online in a safe and efficient manner. The company earns revenue from fees charged to merchants in connection with payment processing services for cross-border and local payment transactions. The company operates in a single operating segment, which is payment processing. The company's geographical segments include Latin America and Non-Latin America, with a majority of its revenue being generated from Brazil in the Latin America region.

Shanghai Sunmi Technology Co Ltd operates as a Business Internet of Things (BIoT) solution provider. It is engaged in the design, research and development, production, and sales of smart devices, along with the provision of related services. The company's offerings include CPad, Interactive Display, Mobile Terminals, Payment Terminals, Desktop Terminals, etc. the Group only has one operating segment. It generates revenue predominantly from sales of its BIoT solutions mainly including smart devices.

Evertec is a full-service transaction processor and financial technology provider headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EVTC. It provides merchant acquiring, payment services and business process management services in Latin America, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, and operates in 26 Latin American countries. The company owns and operates the ATH network, one of the leading PIN debit networks in Latin America, and manages electronic payment networks that process over ten billion transactions annually. It began in 1998 as part of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico and was founded as a subsidiary of the bank in 2004. In 2010 Apollo Management acquired 51% of Evertec, and the company listed on the NYSE in 2013. It has more than 5,000 employees and has expanded through acquisitions in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, including Sinqia, Tecnobank and Dimensa.

Marqeta is an Oakland-based payments technology company founded in 2010. Its open application-programming interfaces let businesses create, issue and manage physical, virtual and tokenized payment cards. Customers configure authorization rules, funding flows, spend controls and transaction data without building a card-processing stack from scratch. The platform serves fintech companies, digital banks, marketplaces, lenders and large enterprises operating card programs. Marqeta earns processing and platform revenue tied to card activity and contracted services. It expanded internationally after raising multiple venture rounds and completed its public listing in 2021. LionBird is listed among Marqeta's early investors and continues to identify the company in its portfolio.

Computer Age Management Services Ltd is a technology-driven financial infrastructure and services provider to mutual funds and other financial institutions. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of technology-based services, such as transaction origination interface, transaction execution, payment, settlement and reconciliation, dividend processing, investor interface, record keeping, report generation, intermediary empanelment and brokerage computation and compliance-related services, through its pan-India network to its mutual fund clients, distributors and investors. It also provides certain services to alternative investment funds, insurance companies, banks and non-banking finance companies.

E-Finance For Digital And Financial Investments SAE is developing integrated platforms in Egypt's digital revolution. It is a fintech platform and developer of digital payments infrastructures. The company invests in platforms and solutions that serve everyone from government agencies to ordinary consumers. The business has seven operating segments; Services and operation of cards, Integrated solutions, installation, and technical support services, card center services, hosting services, maintenance and network contracts, and others. It derives a majority of its revenue from the Services and operation of the cards segment.

Optasia is a B2B2X AI-powered fintech platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement and collection. The company operates across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Its services include: Micro Lending, Airtime Advance, and Data Monetization.

Isracard Ltd is a credit-card company. Its operating segments are the issuance of credit cards, acquiring credit cards and financing. It provides full discounting and clearing services for the credit card brands namely Isracard, MasterCard, American Express and Visa. The company's products and services are gift cards, business cards, student loans, loan for the purchase of a vehicle and other related services.

Fawry is an Egyptian electronic-payments and financial-services platform founded in 2008 and headquartered in Cairo. It connects consumers, merchants, banks, billers and government entities through physical points of sale and digital channels. Services include bill payment, merchant acceptance, collections, mobile transactions and adjacent financial products. Revenue comes from transaction fees, commissions and services sold across its payments network. Fawry is listed on the Egyptian Exchange and operates as a regulated technology-enabled payments company. ADQ acquired a 12.6% minority position in 2022 through the same negotiated Egyptian share-purchase program that covered four other listed companies. Its hybrid network links digital rails with a broad merchant footprint, supporting cash and electronic payment use cases.

Jiangsu Tongxingbao Intelligent Transportation Technology Co Ltd is engaged in providing intelligent transportation platform solutions for expressways, arterial roads and urban transportation.

Cuscal Ltd is a payment and regulated data services provider in Australia. The group offers a comprehensive suite of payment infrastructure solutions to a diversified client base. It enables a range of payment types, from physical cards to real-time payments, in the payment value chain and constantly evolves its offerings to meet the demands of a rapidly changing economy. The company has two reportable segments: Payments and Other segments. The payment segment encompasses electronic and paper payment processing, card products, card platform services, digital application development, liquidity management and settlement services, specialized finance facilities, network communication services, fraud management services, real-time payments, and open data services.

Manipal Payment and Identity Solutions Ltd provides payment solutions, identification solutions, secure solutions, and smart tagging and Internet of Things (IOT) solutions to banks, fintechs, non-banking finance companies and governments across domestic and international jurisdictions. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from payment solutions, which comprise payment cards, cheque solutions, near-field communication (NFC)/quickresponse (QR) codes, payment-enabled wearables, and digital automation solutions. The firm generates key revenue from Cards- Manufactured and traded.

Acceler8 Ventures PLC is an acquisition company. The company has actively pursued its strategy through the sourcing and assessment of acquisition and investment opportunities across gaming, media and entertainment, software and technology, industrials, and business services sectors.

Worldline is a payment service provider offering merchant acquiring, payment processing, and payment infrastructure solutions to merchants and banks.

Paysafe Ltd is an integrated payments platform. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. The company's reportable segments are Merchant Solutions and Digital Wallets. The Merchant Solutions segment, which derives maximum revenue, services markets in North America, Canada and Europe. The Digital Wallets segment services markets in Europe, UK, North America and Latin America. It derives a majority of revenue from the USA followed by Germany, the UK, and all other countries.

GMO Financial Gate Inc is engaged in providing cashless payment infrastructure such as credit cards, debit cards, and electronic money.

CPI Card Group Inc is a payment technology company engaged in providing financial payment card solutions and services. It offers credit, debit, and prepaid cards. The business segments of the group are Debit and Credit, which produces Financial Payment Cards and provides integrated card services to card-issuing banks in the United States, and Prepaid Debit, which provides integrated card services to Prepaid Debit Card program managers in the United States and Others. It derives key revenue from the Debit and Credit segment.

Azkoyen SA designs manufactures and sells technological solutions for payment systems, vending machines, security systems, and access control. The company operates through time and security, payment technologies, and coffee and vending systems segments. The company generates maximum revenue from the coffee and vending systems segment. The coffee and vending systems segment offers the consumption of raw materials for product packaging, the generation of non-hazardous waste, and the consumption of water and energy for the operation of the facilities. Geographically, the company derives a majority of its revenue from Germany and also has a presence in Spain; Italy; the United Kingdom; the Rest EU; the Rest of the OECD, and the Rest of the World.

Intelligent Wave Inc is engaged in sales of system development services and system products, including hardware and software. It operates in two business segments including the Financial Systems Solutions business, and the Product Solutions business. In the Financial Systems Solutions business, it offers value-added system development, through software and hardware integration, and maintenance services for customers operating primarily in the financial services industry. In the Product Solutions business, it deploys and maintains high value-added systems for data security and other solutions based on the in-house developed product as well as system software procured from third parties for customers operating in a range of industries and fields.

Densan System Holdings Co Ltd is engaged in providing comprehensive information technology services. Its Payment Acceptance Service offers a wide variety of innovative settlement services.

wrkr Ltd, formerly Integrated Payment Technologies Ltd develops technology to facilitate the secure storage and transmission of data concerning payments. Its services include ClickSuper Service, Payment Adviser Service, and Bill Exchange Service. The company's only operating segment is engaged in the provision of services that enable its customers to meet their regulatory compliance across the hire-to-retire life cycle. It does that by facilitating the transfer of data and payments between regulated authorities and participants of the ecosystem (HR/payrolls, Accountants, Banks, APRA, SMSF Funds, and federal departments like the ATO). It operates in the one geographical segment of Australia.

Usio Inc is a United States-based company that provides integrated electronic payment services, including credit and debit card-based processing services and transaction processing via the Automated Clearing House, or ACH network to billers and retailers. The Company also has an additional wholly-owned subsidiary, which is the entity for Output Solutions operations.

EML Payments is a financial technology company that operates across North America, Europe, and Australia. The firm builds the infrastructure for a customer to facilitate/accept payments via a prepaid card or in real-time. It makes money primarily via clipping a fee on payment transactions. It also earns fees from breakage, inactive accounts, cash establishments and interest on debit volumes. EML’s payment solutions cater to a variety of applications including payouts, gifts, incentives, rewards, supplier payments, and more. The firm operates across three product offerings: gift and incentive cards, general purpose reloadable cards, and digital payments.

Robot Payment Inc is engaged in the provision of online payment gateway services as well as cloud services that optimize or automate billing-related operations. It offers Subscription Pay, Subscription Pay Professional, 1click Pay Later, and 1click Hayamaru in the payment business, and Billing Management Robo, Billing Management Robo for Enterprise, and Factoring Robo for SaaS, etc., in the financial cloud business, solving the problems of companies. The company's reportable segments are Payment and Financial Cloud. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Payment segment, which predominantly represents its Subscription Pay offering, which provides a system to make payments via the internet and also performs other functions such as customer management and regular billing.

Societe Maghrebine de Monetique SA offers services covering all needs in the field of electronic banking. The company provides wide range of products and services to the requests of its customers, that includes electronic payment solutions, smart card applications, e-commerce solutions, TPE, outsourcing, personalization of means of payment.

Payment Financial Technologies Ltd owns the PaymenT brand which is a payment platform. It is a means of payment that allows businesses to offer financing to their customers easily, quickly, and conveniently and receive immediate payment for the products and services sold.

Plastikkart Akilli Kart Iletisim Sistemleri Sanayi Ve Ticaret AS is a Turkey-based card manufacturing company engaged in manufacturing smart telephone and prepaid cards, sim cards, bank cards, and ID cards in Turkey. Its products include cards for dual interface banking, payment, loyalty, transportation, e-government, security solutions, and payphone and subscriber identity module. It offers services such as security printing, personalization, end-to-end card processing, server hosting, and project consultancy.

Prelude SA is a france based real-estate company specialising in the development and management of social and affordable housing projects, and other residential programs.

M2M Group SA is a provider of processing solutions, securities management and secure electronic services. The company helps banks, governments, transport operators, universities and businesses to accelerate its digital transformation and offer its customers digital services that combine innovation, conviviality and trusted products.

NamSys Inc offers software solutions for currency management and processing for the banking and merchant industries principally in North America. The company generates its revenue in the form of software license fees, maintenance, and professional services. The majority of the revenue is generated from the United States and the rest from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Canada and other regions.

Crunchfish AB is a technical pioneer in digital payment with a patent-pending Digital Cash solution that uses a two-step payment process, first clearing offline followed by online settlement. This makes digital payment robust and independent of the network. Crunchfish digital cash wallet is exceptionally flexible and can be used with all types of payment solutions. It delivers the properties of cash, such as immediate clearing, offline payments and preservation of the payer's integrity, without requiring any changes to the central or commercial banking infrastructures. The company has also developed Blippit, an app terminal that connects to cash register systems for both online and offline payments and has a patent-pending solution to reduce food waste.

Pelican AI Corp is a Comprehensive AI-powered payments and compliance solutions. The group provides Solutions for Banks and Financial Institutions. Its solutions are Digital Payments, iPaaS, Financial AI Hub, Instant Payments, Pelican Payments, Anti-Money Laundering, and Payments Fraud Detection. The Company has one operating segment: development and commercialization of software products in the Payments, Compliance, and Trade Finance domains for Banks, FinTechs, and Non-banking financial institutions. Its Operations are in the United States and the United Kingdom.