Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Card issuance platforms based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 46 card issuance platforms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 3,704 professional contacts across them, including 1,728 with verified work emails. Frankfurt is the largest hub.
This list covers card issuance platforms headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest card issuance platforms based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 801 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AirPlus provides people-centric corporate payment solutions you can count on.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 739 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than customers and 6 billion processed transactions per year, PAYONE is the leading payment provider in Germany and Austria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 505 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PPI AG Consulting und Softwareentwicklung für Banken und Versicherungen Die PPI AG ist seit über 40 Jahren als Beratungs- und Softwarehaus erfolgreich für Banken, Versicherungen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unzer digitalizes commerce with payment and software solutions that cover the entire merchant value chain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VR Payment is one of Germany's leading payment providers and, as a company of the DZ BANK Group, the only bank-owned full-service provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Foconis vereint hochspezialisierte Expertise aus langjähriger Projekterfahrung mit einem einzigartigen Portfolio innovativer Software-Lösungen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit über drei Jahrzehnten bieten wir maßgeschneiderte und professionelle Lösungen für bargeldlose Zahlungen mit Karten an.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind der IT-Service Provider der neuen Generation Die petaFuel GmbH analysiert, entwickelt und implementiert maßgeschneiderte Banken- und Unternehmenslösungen in den Bereichen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unser Unternehmen ist Spezialist für Kartensysteme sowie Personalisierungslösungen der genossenschaftlichen FinanzGruppe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AVS – Lösungen für Gutscheine, Kundenbindung & Tourimus Über uns: Langjährige Erfahrung – individuelle Lösungen – begeisterte Mitarbeiter: Das ist unser Erfolgsrezept!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Das ZahlungsWERK ist der Spezialist für das Thema Zahlungsverkehr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind IDENTA, ein mittelständischer ISO-zertifizierter Full-Service-Anbieter für moderne Kartenlösungen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CountR GmbH is a worldwide operating company with its head quarters in the Technology-Innovation-Science Park in Kleinmachnow, close to Berlin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The manufacturer for plastic cards, smart cards and ID media Plasticard-ZFT delivers products and services "a la card"- plastic cards, smart cards, rfid-cards and ID-media have…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a strong, medium-sized and independent group of companies based in Germany, we offer our customers the latest solutions and innovations in payment, access and data management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als einer der führenden, unabhängigen Anbieter für elektr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “POS-cashservice – Ihr Partner für sichere Kartenzahlung und Payment-Lösungen Als führender Anbieter von Zahlungslösungen für stationären Handel, Gastronomie und E-Commerce bieten…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CPG Finance Systems GmbH was founded 1978 in Munich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “All About Cards is producer of plastic cards, smart cards, prepaid, banking and credit cards.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Are you a growing business processing payment transactions on a global scale?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KIS Global is a young and dynamic team of professionals that have a mission to assemble and deliver market-leading identity management solutions backed by quality Japanese…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PaySys Consultancy GmbH is a neutral and independent consultancy firm specialising in payment systems and cards business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind THE PAYMEN!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vision ID Engineering GmbH is a computer software company based out of Pocking, Bavaria, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: card issuance platforms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names card issuance platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of card issuance platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name card issuance platforms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Card issuance platforms based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 46 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among card issuance platforms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “card issuance platforms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names card issuance platforms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among card issuance platforms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,728 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names card issuance platforms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many card issuance platforms are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 46 card issuance platforms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Airplus, headquartered in Neu-Isenburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most card issuance platforms?
Frankfurt leads with 3 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (3) and Neu-Isenburg (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,728 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 46 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.