Card Issuing (credit, debit and prepaid; virtual and physical) Accounts & Money Movement (ACH, wire, virtual and routable accounts, ledgers) Lithic Program Management Processing Only Fraud & Risk Controls
Profiles record card types, partner banks as announced, networks and API documentation for each issuer processor. How to compare them is covered in how to choose an issuer processor and the comparison of card issuing platforms.
Questions
What is an issuer processor? The system that authorizes and records card transactions for an issuing bank’s program under the network’s rules.
Do issuer processors issue cards themselves? No. A bank that is a member of the card network issues the cards; the processor runs the program’s transactions.
Source: each provider’s own documentation, product pages, official announcements and filings, and official registers for licences, as linked in each profile. Fields a provider does not publish stay empty. How we build profiles: methodology.