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Europe's main merchant transactions card acquirers as of 2016

Leading Visa/Mastercard acquirers in Europe as of 2016, by merchant transactions (in millions)
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The data describes the leading card acquirers (banks and other financial organisations licensed by Visa and Mastercard to be able to issue credit cards directly to merchant processors), ranked by merchant card transactions acquired in Europe as of 2016. In that time, WorldPay from the UK was ranked highest among the leading card acquirers, with nearly 6.9 merchant transactions. Second in the ranking was Russian Sberbank with 5.3 billion transactions.

WorldPay (UK) 6854
Sberbank (Russia) 5330
Barclays (UK) 4596
Nets (Denmark) 4071
Credit Mutuel (France) 3116
Credit Agricole (France) 2542
Swedbank (Sweden) 2273
JPMorgan (Ireland) 2089
Elavon (Ireland) 1675
BPCE (France) 1424