Nielsen's 2015 global acquirer rankings released

Recently, The Nilson Report, the world's leading consultancy, officially released the 2015 Global Acquiring Organization Rankings. UnionPay Business ranked 18th in the world with 3.13 billion pen orders for all-car receipts, up one place from last year.

Among the top 150 acquirers in the world, UnionPay, as the “single representative” of Chinese acquirers, has been on the list for four consecutive years, and has risen from the 21st in the first year to the 18th. According to the report, UnionPay's 2015 annual receipts increased by more than 39% year-on-year, successfully breaking through the 3 billion mark. In the “2015 Asia Pacific Institutional List of Institutions”, which was just released in October, UnionPay’s absolute advantage of the full card type of transaction amount of 1.766 trillion US dollars (about 11 trillion yuan), for the third consecutive In the year, it ranked first in the list of acquirers in the Asia Pacific region.

It is reported that as of the end of October 2016, the number of merchants of UnionPay business services has exceeded 6.31 million, and nearly 7.86 million POS terminals have been maintained. The business scope of UnionPay Business not only includes various payment services such as traditional bank card receipt, Internet payment and mobile payment, but also focuses on “payment” and builds a diversified market demand covering Internet finance, big data applications, and o2o marketing. The product service system provides targeted solutions for the transformation and upgrading of merchants in various industries such as e-commerce, logistics, catering, insurance, and exhibitions.

As the world's leading consulting firm focused on the analysis of the payment industry, Nielsen publishes the global annual acquirer rankings for the fourth quarter of each year, which has become the industry's benchmark and barometer for reviewing the comprehensive strengths of the world's major acquirers. Since its first participation in Nielsen's global acquirer rankings in 2012, UnionPay's ranking has risen year by year, not only once again consolidating its leading position in the field of bank card acquiring services, but also verifying the Bank of China (601988) card. The acquiring market still has huge development potential.