Payment Cards In Australia 2007

Published by: Datamonitor

Published: Jun. 26, 2007 - 73 Pages

Table of Contents

Overview

Catalyst

Summary

Executive summary

Market context

Competitor and product overview

Forecasting the payment card market in Australia

Introduction

What is this report about?

Scope of the report

Structure of the report

Market context

Introduction

Country overview

Market size

Card acceptance

Market structure

Regulatory environment

Key issues

Competitor and product overview

Introduction

Card scheme market shares

Card issuer market shares

Competitor developments

Product analysis

Product innovation

Forecasting the payment card market in Australia

Introduction

Forecasting the debit card market

Forecasting the credit card market

Forecasting the charge card market

SWOT analysis

APPENDIX

Supplementary data

Definitions

Methodology

Further reading

Ask the analyst

Datamonitor consulting

Disclaimer

TABLE OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Overview of Australia, 2005/6

Figure 2: Population size in selected Asia Pacific countries, 2006

Figure 3: GDP for selected countries across Asia Pacific, 2005

Figure 4: Australia’s GDP is largely drawn from the services sector, 2005

Figure 5: Australia’s GDP has grown steadily over the last five years, 2002-06

Figure 6: Debit cards dominate the Australian payment card market in terms of cards in issue, 2002-06

Figure 7: The majority of payment card transactions take place on debit cards, 2002-06

Figure 8: Debit cards overtook credit cards as the most frequently used card type in 2005

Figure 9: Payment card spend grew strongly between 2002 and 2006

Figure 10: Average transaction values are highest on charge cards, 2002-06

Figure 11: Balances outstanding on credit cards have grown strongly over the last five years, 2002-06

Figure 12: ATM penetration has increased steadily over the last five years, reaching 823 people per ATM in June 2006

Figure 13: EFTPOS terminal penetration reached 38 people per terminal in June 2006

Figure 14: EFTPOS dominates the debit card market in terms of cards in issue, 2002-06

Figure 15: EFTPOS also dominates the debit card market in terms of transaction values, 2002-06

Figure 16: Visa and MasterCard dominate the Australian credit card market in terms of cards in issue, 2002-06

Figure 17: Visa is the leading card scheme in terms of credit card spend, 2002-06

Figure 18: American Express dominates the consumer charge card market in terms of cards in issue, 2002-06

Figure 19: American Express also dominates the consumer charge card market in terms of spend, 2002-06

Figure 20: CBA is the leading issuer in the debit card market, 2006

Figure 21: CBA is the leading card issuer in terms of cards in issue, 2006

Figure 22: Westpac leads the credit card market in terms of balances outstanding, 2006

Figure 23: The number of transactions is predicted to drive the debit card market over the next five years, 2006-11f

Figure 24: Credit card transaction values are expected to grow strongly over the next five years, 2006-11f

Figure 25: The charge card market is forecast to grow in the long-term, 2006-2011f

Figure 26: SWOT analysis of the payment card market in Australia, 2007

TABLE OF TABLES

Table 1: GDP per capita in selected Asia Pacific markets, 2005

Table 2: Inflation rates in selected Asian and Asia-Pacific markets, 2002-06

Table 3: GINI Co-efficient in selected countries, 2006

Table 4: Timeline of the RBA investigation into credit card interchange, 1999-2007

Table 5: The interchange fee for the four party schemes in October 2000 and September 2006

Table 6: Selected credit cards from Australian issuers, 2007

Table 7: Selected reward based credit cards from Australian issuers, 2007

Table 8: Datamonitor’s forecast for the debit card market, 2007f-11f

Table 9: Datamonitor’s forecast for the credit card market, 2007f-11f

Table 10: Datamonitor’s forecast for the charge card market, 2007f-11f

Table 11: Population data for selected Asia Pacific countries, 2006

Table 12: Current GDP, 2005

Table 13: GDP growth rates in Australia, 2002-06

Table 14: ATM data for Australia, 2002-06

Table 15: EFTPOS terminal data for Australia, 2002-06

Table 16: Current relevant Datamonitor publications, 2007

Table 17: Future relevant Datamonitor publications, 2007

Abstract

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