It takes money to make money, at least in the payment cards and service industry. It also takes Freedonia research. Payment cards are a major business that has become even more important in the wake of the pandemic, when fears of transmission and national coin shortages led to restrictions on use of cash as currency. However, rising competition from electronic forms of payment poses as a threat to the industry.
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Globally, commercial card products are a trillion-dollar payments industry. In the US, card issuers and their networks continue to target the $25 trillion in payments companies make each year.
The largest categories of commercial cards are purchase cards (also known as P-cards, procurement cards, or payment cards) and corporate cards, which are used for travel and entertainment expenses. Other types of commercial cards include one cards, fleet cards, prepaid cards, declining balance cards, virtual cards, and ghost cards.
The report analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the retail and travel sectors and on the co-branded credit card market, the going-forward strategies of top co-branded card issuers, key retailer programs and initiatives, and consumer use of co-branded cards.
This report forecasts US private label credit card (PLCC) market growth to 2025.
New report “Private Label Credit Cards in the U.S., 13th Edition,” offering a deeply detailed analysis of the shifting strategies and emerging opportunities and challenges confronting private label card issuers and their merchant partners.
This report forecasts to 2023 and 2024 the US market for prepaid cards in nominal US dollars.
The new “Prepaid Cards in the US, 8th Edition” market research report presents a deeply detailed analysis of the opportunities and challenges confronting the companies participating in the prepaid card segment, whether they be card managers, marketers or issuers.
The adaptability and resilience of the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) industry has confounded naysayers on Wall Street, in traditional banks and finance companies, and within the credit card segment.
Credit cards have come out of the pandemic stronger than ever:
This report forecasts from 2023 to 2026 US general-purpose credit card payment value in nominal US dollars.
Advisors and wealth managers have pivoted their strategies as they respond to the mutability of wealth and the wealthy.
Gen Z, much more than Millennials at the same age, appears less willing to abandon debit and short-term buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) installment loans (with low or zero percent interest rates) as their tools for purchasing and financing purchases.