Customise Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorised as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

European Payments Report (Overview) 2025

European girl using mobile phone at home

Introduction About the Yearbook This edition of the European Digital and Card Payment Yearbook contains 33 profiles, covering the countries which make up the European Economic Area (EEA) – the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU27) and the UK together with Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland – plus Serbia and Turkey.  Like previous editions, […]

United Kingdom 2025

Market Overview Payment Organisations Payment System Regulator (PSR), since April 2015.  Pay.UK, the new payment system operator, since 2017.  UK Finance, the new UK banking industry association, since 2017.  LINK operates the LINK ATM network scheme in the UK.  VocaLink, owned by Mastercard since 2017, processes the UK’s Faster Payments system, settlements, and the direct […]

Turkey 2025

Market Overview Payment Organisation BKM is the interbank authorisation and switching centre. Domestic Payment Brands TROY cards co-badged Discover for international use.  Market Structure In 2016, Turkey’s first domestic card scheme, TROY, went live.  There were 397.23 million cards by end-2023. Debit cards, accounting for 47.71% of cards in circulation, are mainly used for ATM […]

Switzerland 2025

Market Overview Payment Organisations SIX Group, the Swiss interbank organisation.  Aduno Group – interbank organisation of the Swiss regional banks Domestic Payment Brands PostFinance debit cards, CardDirect, some co-badged PLUS.  TWINT, the digital A2A payment app of the Swiss banks.  Market Structure Swiss banks mainly issue Maestro debit cards, PostFinance, the banking arm of Swiss […]