The reference layer for online payments

Methods, banks, currencies and the news that moves them — what an online merchant needs to decide where money can go.

579

payment methods

850

banks

192

sovereign states

153

currencies

01 — news

Latest industry news

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Launch

Pine Labs and Stripe give Singapore retailers one platform for online and in-store card payments from November

Eligible Singapore retailers can run Stripe online payments and card payments on Pine Labs store terminals through one platform, with Southeast Asia expansion...

Scheme

European Payments Council updates name-matching guidance for Verification of Payee to version 2.0

New EPC guidance sets how banks return Match, Close Match or No Match when payers check a payee name, including trading names and abbreviations used by...

Launch

Klarna brings dispute tools and shopper-currency pricing to Mollie's 350,000 merchants across Europe

Mollie merchants get Klarna's enhanced dispute management and consumer FX through their existing integration, with coverage across the European Economic Area.

Launch

Trendyol adds Revolut Pay to its marketplace checkout, running almost all payments over bank rails

Trendyol shoppers can now pay with Revolut Pay in one tap, with Revolut saying nearly all of these payments run account-to-account rather than over card...

Incident

Bank of Uganda takes RTGS and ACH offline from 5 to 9 November for an upgrade

Uganda's interbank settlement and clearing systems will be unavailable from 5pm on 5 November to 9am on 9 November, freezing transfers, direct debits and batch...

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02 — countries

192 market reports

What each country spends online, how it pays, and which of the 579 methods a merchant has to support to reach it. Reports cover 192 sovereign states; 7 territories also have their own page (199 in all).

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192 of 192 countries · $7.67 tn covered

ChinaCN · CNY · Digital wallets 89%$2.6 tn25 methods United StatesUS · USD · —$2.5 tn41 methods United KingdomGB · GBP · Digital wallets 40%$371 bn40 methods FranceFR · EUR · Digital wallets 36%$199 bn41 methods JapanJP · JPY · Credit cards 58%$193 bn33 methods GermanyDE · EUR · Digital wallets 52%$192 bn39 methods

CountryISOCurrencyE-commerceLargest payment typeMethods

ChinaCNCNY$2.6 tnDigital wallets89%25 United StatesUSUSD$2.5 tn—41 United KingdomGBGBP$371 bnDigital wallets40%40 FranceFREUR$199 bnDigital wallets36%41 JapanJPJPY$193 bnCredit cards58%33 GermanyDEEUR$192 bnDigital wallets52%39 South KoreaKRKRW$180 bnCredit cards49%24 IndiaININR$165 bnDigital wallets68%41

Showing 8 of 192All 192 countries →$7.67 tn covered

Largest payment type, by marketof 192

Cash on delivery64Cards48Digital wallet30Bank transfer10

E-commerce covered

$7.67 tn

Online spend across the 192 market reports.

Largest payment type, by marketof 192

Cash on delivery64Cards48Digital wallet30Bank transfer10

By region

Europe45 Asia-Pacific46 Middle East & North Africa19 Latin America33 Africa47 North America2

03 — the corpus

Methods, banks and currencies

Each index links to the others: a method to the markets it reaches, a bank to the methods it issues, a currency to the methods that settle in it.

MethodsUnionPay · WeChat Pay · Klarna · Revolut (Revolut Pay)57912 categories BanksBy name and BIC · DBS Bank · HSBC Holdings850165 countries CurrenciesEUR 119 · USD 117 · GBP 40153ISO 4217

Methods

57912 categories

Cards, wallets, bank transfers, BNPL, cash and mobile money — each with its category and the markets it reaches.

UnionPayCard network / scheme193 markets WeChat PayDigital / mobile wallet2 markets KlarnaBNPL26 markets Revolut (Revolut Pay)Neobank / fintech account30 markets

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Banks

850165 countries

Recognised by name and BIC, with their roles, markets, currencies and the methods they issue.

DBS BankSingaporeDBSSSGSG HSBC HoldingsUnited Kingdom—HSBC Hong KongHong KongHSBCHKHH Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)ChinaICBKCNBJ

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Currencies

153ISO 4217

ISO 4217 codes and the methods that settle in each, across 192 states.

EuroEUR · €119 methods US DollarUSD · $117 methods British PoundGBP · £40 methods Australian DollarAUD · A$30 methods

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04 — the map

Where the world pays

How many methods a market supports, or which markets a single method reaches.One view of the corpus by geography: how many methods a market supports, or which markets a single method reaches. Pick a method, then a country on the map.

Methods available per market, from live catalog geography. 198 of 199 markets have mapped methods.

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Widest coverage

199 markets · methods per market