Card fee income decreased for the third consecutive year in 2019, while interchange income posted strong a double-digit gain. The decline for 2019 was directly attributable to reduced penalty fees (mostly late payments fees) and lower cash advance fees, driven by a robust economy with low unemployment and fairly stable consumer sentiment, according to CardData. Income from…
Credit card ROA (pre-tax return on assets) for 2019 is estimated to rise to 4.80%, compared to 4.60% for the prior year, and compared to 4.45% for 2017. In 1987 pre-tax ROA peaked at 5.00% and bottomed at 1.50% in 2009. According to R.K. Hammer, credit card portfolio evaluation and sales experts, total revenue increased…
B2B market in Japan is ripe for development as it begins to tap into modern online payment methods. In the U.S., personalization is becoming a bigger part of overall B2B performance. In 2019, data breach was most hurtful to Capital One branding, blockchain platform Nuls was hacked, and Mastercard and RiskRecon team for all out…
Payment earnings reports for the nation’s top credit card issuers, global payments networks and supporting businesses gets underway before the market opens on Tuesday, January 14th. First out of the shoot is Chase (JPM), Citibank (C) and Wells Fargo (WFS), according to CardData and PYRPTS. U.S. Bank (USB) and Bank of America (BAC) are scheduled…
X-Border transaction volume growth FX (currency adjusted) YOY (year-on-year) is driven solely by Mastercard. Third-quarter global cross-border transaction volume for Mastercard has consistently outpaced Visa more than double for the past two years. Cross-border transaction (X-Border) volume refers to payments and cash volume where the issuing country is different from the merchant country. X-Border Transaction…
Artificial intelligence (AI) virtual assistants take over credit card services and wearable payments begin to blossom along with digital personal identification technology. But AI is capable of reflecting creator biases as part of the learning process, reports CardBuzz. Credit card issuers are still playing it safe in risk management as some metrics raise red flags…
Global cards from the four U.S.-based payment card networks expanded by 286 million credit and debit cards-in-force (CIF), over the past twelve months. Visa [V], Mastercard [MA], American Express [AXP], and Discover/Diners [DFS], global payment cards, including credit, charge, debit and prepaid products, grew 5.2% year-on-year (YOY) in the third-quarter (3Q/19). Growth has been eroding…
Credit card profits (after tax) among the nation’s Top 4 bank credit card issuers shriveled by 4.2% YOY (year-on-year) in the third-quarter (3Q/19), compared to 44.0% one-year ago. The surge in 2018 was directly related to the corporate tax cuts. Profits (after tax) among the nation’s Top 4 U.S. credit card issuers (Chase [JPM]; Capital…
Top card issuer marketshare, based on U.S. purchase dollar volume (PDV) of Visa [V], Mastercard [MA], American Express [AXP] and Discover [DFS], increased 30 bps (basis points) in the third-quarter (3Q/19). Chase, the nation’s largest credit card issuer on outstandings and the fastest growing issuer, based on PDV at 19% YOY (year-on-year), led the Top…
Third-quarter card loan growth, among the Top 4 U.S. issuers, grew a solid 4.3% year-on-year (YOY), compared to 2.6% YOY in the prior quarter, and compared to 2.8% YOY one-year ago. Among the nation’s Top 4 credit card issuers (Chase [JPM], Capital One [COF], Bank of America [BAC], and Citibank [C]), the annual growth rate…
U.S. card yield, as an average for the nation’s Top 4 issuers, remained at record levels in the third-quarter posting a small uptick sequentially. All of the issuers, except Chase, posted higher yields in the third-quarter from the prior quarter. However, this is fourth consecutive quarter wherein all of the Top 4 exceeded 10%. The…
Global card PDV (purchase dollar volume) in the third-quarter (3Q/19) among the Major 4 U.S. payment networks continued to spiral down over the past year. On an FX (currency adjusted) basis, Major 4 global payment card (credit + charge + debit + prepaid) PDV declined from a 12.5% YOY (year-on-year) FX gain for 3Q/18 to…