Card-issuing platforms: market share 2026
- Marqeta is the most-named card-issuing platform, linked to 65 companies through their public disclosures and provider customer lists (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
- The 5 most-named card-issuing platforms are Marqeta (65), Stripe Issuing (30), Enfuce (23), Paymentology (23) and Sutton Bank (21), by number of linked companies (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
- 98 card-issuing platforms are linked to two or more companies, across 873 documented relationships (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
- The top 5 card-issuing platforms account for 18.6% of all documented card-issuing platform relationships (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
How often fintechs disclose their card-issuing platform 2026
- 11.5% of fintechs publicly name their card-issuing provider (759 of 6,588 companies analyzed) (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
- Of fintechs that disclose anything about their card issuing stack, 38.3% name only an own-brand product rather than the underlying provider (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
Card-issuing platforms by region 2026
- Marqeta is the most-named card-issuing platform among fintechs headquartered in the US, linked to 36 companies there through their public disclosures and provider customer lists (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
- Marqeta is the most-named card-issuing platform among fintechs headquartered in the EU, linked to 18 companies there through their public disclosures and provider customer lists (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
- Marqeta is the most-named card-issuing platform among fintechs headquartered in the UK, linked to 8 companies there through their public disclosures and provider customer lists (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
- Dock is the most-named card-issuing platform among fintechs headquartered in Latin America, linked to 5 companies there through their public disclosures and provider customer lists (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
- Nium is the most-named card-issuing platform among fintechs headquartered in APAC, linked to 9 companies there through their public disclosures and provider customer lists (Embedded Finance Index, October 2026). Details →
How to cite these statistics
Embedded Finance Index, October 2026, published by Apideck. https://www.embeddedfinanceindex.com/statistics/card-issuing. Figures are recomputed as dossiers are added; quote the month alongside the number.
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