Visa's market share in the UK grew two percentage points between 2019 and 2020, establishing it further as the country's biggest payment card brand. It is assumed that most payments conducted with these two brands are credit credits, although contactless debit cards payments do play a big role in the United Kingdom. For example, approximately 84.4 million debit cards with the ability to make contactless payments were issued as of October 2019.
Biggest payment card brands in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2016 to 2020
Online and offline payments that involved a payment card; The source did not provide separate figures for either offline or online, but provided a total
Supplementary notes
The figures have been taken from several publications.
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