Table of Contents
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

List of Tables
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

List of Figures
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