The Cards and Payments Industry in the UK: Emerging Trends and Opportunities to 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1.1. Market overview

1.2. Key facts

1.3. Top five industry events

2 PAYMENT INSTRUMENTS

2.1. Current payment environment

3 E-COMMERCE AND ALTERNATIVE PAYMENTS

3.1. E-commerce market analysis

3.2. Alternative payment solutions

3.2.1. PayPal

3.2.2. Apple Pay

3.2.3. Android Pay

3.2.4. Samsung Pay

3.2.5. bPay

3.2.6. Pingit

3.2.7. Paym

3.2.8. Zapper

3.2.9. PayQwiq

3.2.10. Seqr

3.2.11. MasterPass

3.2.12. Visa V.me

4 REGULATIONS IN THE CARDS AND PAYMENTS INDUSTRY

4.1. Regulatory framework

4.1.1. SEPA implementation in the UK

4.1.2. Implementation of the payment services directive (PSD) in the UK

4.1.3. Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2)

4.1.4. Interchange fee regulation

4.1.5. UK Payment Cards Association best practice guidelines

4.2. Anti-money laundering

4.3. Foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations

5 ANALYSIS OF CARDS AND PAYMENTS INDUSTRY DRIVERS

6 PAYMENT CARDS

6.1. Contactless payments

7 DEBIT CARDS

7.1. Debit cards market analysis

7.2. Competition in the debit cards market

7.3. Debit cards comparison

8 PAY LATER CARDS

8.1. Pay later cards market analysis

8.2. Competition in the pay later cards market

8.3. Pay later cards comparison

9 PREPAID CARDS

10 MERCHANT ACQUIRING

11 APPENDIX

11.1. Abbreviations and acronyms

11.2. Supplementary data

11.3. Definitions

11.4. Common payment card features

11.5. Methodology

11.6. Bibliography

11.7. Further reading

Table 1: The UK, Key Facts, 2016

Table 2: The UK, Regional Benchmarking of Payment Cards (US$), 2016

Table 3: The UK, Modes of Entry of Foreign Banks

Table 4: The UK, Contactless Payments, 2012–2016

Table 5: The UK, Contactless Payments, 2012–2016

Table 6: The UK, Debit Cards Comparison and Key Features, 2016

Table 7: The UK, Gold Credit Cards Comparison and Key Features, 2016

Table 8: The UK, Premium Credit Cards Comparison and Key Features, 2016

Table 9: The UK, Charge Cards Comparison and Key Features, 2016

Table 10: The UK, Payment Instrument Transaction Values (GBP Billion), 2012–2016

Table 11: The UK, Payment Instrument Transaction Values (US$ Billion), 2012–2016

Table 12: The UK, Payment Instrument Transaction Volumes (Million), 2012–2016

Table 13: The UK, Payment Cards in Circulation by Type (Million), 2012–2021

Table 14: The UK, Volume of Payment Card Transactions (Million), 2012–2021

Table 15: The UK, Value of Payment Card Transactions (GBP Billion), 2012–2021

Table 16: The UK, Value of Payment Card Transactions (US$ Billion), 2012–2021

Table 17: The UK, Debit Cards in Circulation (Million), 2012–2021

Table 18: The UK, Debit Card Transaction Volumes, 2012–2021

Table 19: The UK, Debit Card Transaction Values (GBP), 2012–2021

Table 20: The UK, Debit Card Transaction Values (US$), 2012–2021

Table 21: The UK, Debit Cards in Circulation by Scheme (Million), 2012–2016

Table 22: The UK, Debit Card Transaction Values by Scheme (GBP Billion), 2012–2016

Table 23: The UK, Debit Card Transaction Values by Scheme (US$ Billion), 2012–2016

Table 24: The UK, Debit Card Transaction Values by Issuer (GBP Billion), 2012–2016

Table 25: The UK, Debit Card Transaction Values by Issuer (US$ Billion), 2012–2016

Table 26: The UK, Pay Later Cards in Circulation (Million), 2012–2021

Table 27: The UK, Pay Later Card Transaction Volumes, 2012–2021

Table 28: The UK, Pay Later Card Transaction Values (GBP), 2012–2021

Table 29: The UK, Pay Later Card Transaction Values (US$), 2012–2021

Table 30: The UK, Pay Later Cards in Circulation by Scheme (Million), 2012–2016

Table 31: The UK, Pay Later Card Transaction Values by Scheme (GBP Billion), 2012–2016

Table 32: The UK, Pay Later Card Transaction Values by Scheme (US$ Billion), 2012–2016

Table 33: The UK, Pay Later Card Transaction Values by Issuer (GBP Billion), 2012–2016

Table 34: The UK, Pay Later Card Transaction Values by Issuer (US$ Billion), 2012–2016

Table 35: The UK, Credit Cards in Circulation (Million), 2012–2021

Table 36: The UK, Credit Card Transaction Volumes, 2012–2021

Table 37: The UK, Credit Card Transaction Values (GBP), 2012–2021

Table 38: The UK, Credit Card Transaction Values (US$), 2012–2021

Table 39: The UK, Credit Cards in Circulation by Scheme (Million), 2012–2016

Table 40: The UK, Credit Card Transaction Values by Scheme (GBP Billion), 2012–2016

Table 41: The UK, Credit Card Transaction Values by Scheme (US$ Billion), 2012–2016

Table 42: The UK, Charge Cards in Circulation (Million), 2012–2021

Table 43: The UK, Charge Card Transaction Volumes, 2012–2021

Table 44: The UK, Charge Card Transaction Values (GBP), 2012–2021

Table 45: The UK, Charge Card Transaction Values (US$), 2012–2021

Table 46: The UK, Charge Cards in Circulation by Scheme (Thousand), 2012–2016

Table 47: The UK, Charge Card Transaction Values by Scheme (GBP Billion), 2012–2016

Table 48: The UK, Charge Card Transaction Values by Scheme (US$ Billion), 2012–2016

Table 49: The UK, Prepaid Cards in Circulation (Million), 2012–2021

Table 50: The UK, Prepaid Card Transaction Values (GBP Billion), 2012–2021

Table 51: The UK, Prepaid Card Transaction Values (US$ Billion), 2012–2021

Table 52: The UK, Merchant Acquiring Transaction Volumes (Billion), 2011–2020

Table 53: The UK, Merchant Acquiring Transaction Values (GBP Billion), 2011–2020

Table 54: The UK, Merchant Acquiring Transaction Values (US$ Billion), 2011–2020

Table 55: The UK, Acquirers’ Transaction Volumes (Million), 2011–2015

Table 56: The UK, Acquirers’ Transaction Values (GBP Billion), 2011–2015

Table 57: The UK, Acquirers’ Transaction Values (US$ Billion), 2011–2015

Table 58: The UK, Retail Outlets and Card-Accepting Merchants (Million), 2011–2020

Table 59: The UK, Debit Card Average Interchange Fees (%), 2011–2015

Table 60: The UK, Debit Card Merchant Service Charge and Interchange Fee (%), 2011–2020

Table 61: The UK, Pay Later Card Average Interchange Fees (%), 2011–2015

Table 62: The UK, Pay Later Card Merchant Service Charge and Interchange Fee (%), 2011–2020

Table 63: Definitions of Commonly Used Terms

Table 64: Common Features of Payment Cards

Table 65: Annual Average Exchange Rate (GBP–US$), 2012–2021

Figure 1: The UK, Payment Instrument Shares by Transaction Value (%), 2012 vs 2016

Figure 2: The UK, Payment Instrument Shares by Transaction Volume (%), 2012 vs 2016

Figure 3: The UK, E-Commerce Value

Figure 4: The UK, Population and Economic Indicators

Figure 5: The UK, ATMs, POS Terminals and Household Consumption

Figure 6: The UK, Payment Cards Transaction Value and Cards in Circulation (%), 2012–2021

Figure 7: The UK, Contactless Cards in Circulation, Transaction Values and Volumes, 2012–2016

Figure 8: The UK, Contactless Transactions: Debit vs Credit and Charge Cards (%), September 2016

Figure 9: The UK, Total vs Contactless POS Terminals (%), 2014 vs 2015

Figure 10: The UK, Breakdown of Contactless Transactions (%), May 2015

Figure 11: The UK, Value and Volume of Contactless Debit, Credit and Charge Cards, 2012–2016

Figure 12: The UK, Debit Card Penetration and Turnover per Card, 2016

Figure 13: The UK, Debit Cards Scheme and Issuer Transaction Value Share (%), 2016

Figure 14: The UK, Pay Later Card Penetration and Turnover Per Card, 2016

Figure 15: The UK, Pay Later Cards Scheme and Issuer Transaction Value Share (%), 2016

Figure 16: The UK, Prepaid Cards in Circulation and Transaction Value, 2012–2021

Figure 17: The UK, Merchant Acquiring Transaction Volume and Value, 2011–2020

Figure 18: The UK, Acquirers’ Market Share in Terms of Transaction Volume and Value (%), 2015

Figure 19: The UK, Average Merchant Service Charge and Interchange Fee (%), 2011–2020