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2024 Market Review Of UK Card Schemes And Payment Processing Fees


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published an interim report on the market review of scheme and processing fees associated with Mastercard and Visa, the two largest card payment system operators in the UK. The report sets out the provisional findings and potential regulatory actions to address concerns about the competitive constraints and transparency of […]

Real-Time Map Of Shopify Transactions On Black Friday 2020


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

The interactive map above shows real-time Sales per minute (in USD) across all of Shopify’s Merchants on Black Friday 2020. At the time of writing Shopify Merchants were processing 13,634 orders per minute resulting in sales of $1,339,111. That’s over $80 million per hour! Moreover: Shopify will offset all carbon emissions from the delivery of […]

The Fastest Growing Companies & Industries In The US & Europe


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

Fastest-growing companies per country Top 50 Companies Europe Top 50 Companies USA Top 50 Companies Growth Per Employee Fastest Growing Companies By State Top 10 industries with the most fastest-growing companies Fastest Growing Industries In The UK Fastest Growing Industries In The US Methodology & Sources The companies used in this research are from the […]

Who Works The Most In 2021? Hardest Working UK Industries


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

Data By Industry Data By Location Data & Sources All data has been pulled from ONS ASHE data (2019). Data was released in November 2019 and was analysed between 20/05/20-26/05/20. All figures have been taken from the “Earnings and hours worked, industry by two-digit SIC: ASHE”.

Europe Divided Into Areas With An Economy Equal In Size To London


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

Map created by reddit user Speech500 The map shows just how big London’s economy is. Each of the coloured areas has an economy that is roughly equal to London’s GDP figure of £487 billion ($600 billion) in 2018.

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