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Card acceptance points: Visa maintains global lead over MasterCard

The recent Retail Bank Research report on the merchant points accepting cards showed that there are 31 million card accepting outlets world-wide. Visa and MasterCard cards are accepted at over 27 million outlets, far more than any of the other payment card schemes, as the figure below shows.

No. of card accepting merchants (000s) / card scheme as at December 2011

Source & Copyright©2012 - RBR Ltd

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