The Top 10 Largest Merchant Processing Acquirers in the Country

As stated in the Nilson Report in March, 2010, these are the top 10 largest merchant processing acquiring banks:

• 1. First Data
• 2. Bank of America
• 3. Fifth Third Bank
• 4. Chase Paymentech
• 5. Heartland Payments
• 6. RBS WorldPay
• 7. Elavon
• 8. Global Payments
• 9. Wells Fargo
• 10. FNMS

Your Merchant Service Provider may be a registered ISO for one of these banks. There is nothing wrong or less advantageous to using a registered ISO of a bank as opposed to going to the bank directly.

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