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Insights and Expertise
Merchant processing: Call report reporting
By Ken Musante
Napa Payments and Consulting
he Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council publishes Bank Consolidated Reports of Condition and
Income quarterly. These reports, known as call reports, can be used to compare bank performance. One of the
required data categories is the year-to-date merchant credit cards sales volume. It is possible to search and
T compare processing by bank and see the growth from one year to the next.
Measuring growth year to year
Table 1 accompanying this article is populated using the FFIEC’s year-end 2023 and 2024 published bank call reports.
https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/ManageFacsimiles.aspx.
Table 1
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