Competitor Strategies in Payments and Lending

The leading card networks and issuers continued to convert paper payments in 2025 but also face challenges in an increasingly complex competitive environment. Through acquisitions and investments, the networks have expanded their value-added services for both business and consumer payments, deepened their integration into digital payment channels and enhanced consumer engagement tools. Converting the USD28 trillion in B2B paper payment value offers the single largest opportunity.

Euromonitor International's Competitor Strategies in Payments and Lending global briefing offers insight into the size and shape of the Payments and Lending market, highlights buzz topics, emerging geographies, categories and trends as well as pressing industry issues and white spaces. It identifies the leading companies and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market. Forecasts provide an invaluable perspective on market evolution and the criteria for success. The briefing leverages Euromonitor International's 360-degree coverage of the global payments' landscape including insight on consumer debt.

Product coverage: Consumer Lending, E-Commerce in Proximity Location by Industry, Financial Cards and Payments.

Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.

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• Get a detailed picture of the Payments and Lending market;
• Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change;
• Understand the competitive environment, the market's major players and leading brands;
• Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.

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